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on May 7, 2015 in World News

Omar Khadr, once a Guantanamo inmate, freed on bail in Canada

Omar Khadr, once a Guantanamo inmate, freed on bail in Canada Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was once the youngest prisoner held on terror charges at Guantanamo Bay, will be released on bail from an Alberta prison on Thursday while he appeals a murder conviction by a U.S. military tribunal. A judge in an Alberta court ruled that Khadr, who was captured in Afghanistan when he was 15 and pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier, can be released on bail, denying an appeal by the Canadian government to keep him in custody. Khadr, 28, was transferred to Alberta from… View Article

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