Free Omar Khadr Now - Public talk with Dennis Edney

Free Omar Khadr Now - Public talk with Dennis Edney: Still in Jail After 11 Years; What´s Next?

by Lawyers Against the War

At 15, Omar Khadr was captured by US Special Forces in Afghanistan and charged several years later with the death of a U.S. soldier. For 11 years he has been imprisoned in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and now Canada. Kept in solitary confinement, tortured, deprived of medication for his wounds, Omar was eventually convicted by an illegal military process based on a confession extracted by torture.

Dennis Edney, Q.C.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 

7:00 - 9:00pm

SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St.

(on unceded Coast Salish territory)

 Free Admission

FREE OMAR KHADR NOW!

No evidence of his guilt was ever produced.

The offences that he confessed to committing were not crimes in 2002 and therefore prosecution is universally barred.

A U.S. appeals court threw out similar charges against another Guantanamo prisoner

Canada was the lone Western country not to secure the release of its citizen from Guantanamo.

In 2012 Khadr was finally returned to Canada and is currently imprisoned at Millhaven maximum security prison, deprived of access to basic education and rehabilitation programmes.

A new group has formed in Vancouver to work locally and nationally to free Omar Khadr. Join us to help right this terrible injustice.

Dennis Edney, QC is Omar Khadr´s Canadian lawyer. He is the recipient of the 2009 Human Rights Medal awarded by the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia for work that "has helped to promote and further  human rights". Edney has lectured extensively with emphasis on the Rule of Law, to organizations, universities and conferences throughout North America. He has been a keynote speaker on behalf of Amnesty International, speaking at Trinity College, Dublin, on the Rule of Law (2005); and in London, England, at the international conference on the "Global Struggle against Torture" (2005).

Organized by the Vancouver Free Omar Khadr Now Committee
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