Judge: Charter of Rights Extends to Gitmo prisoner

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/20...8/10/khadr.html

Canada's spy agency is defending its right to interrogate a Canadian being held by the U.S. as a suspected terrorist at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

 

A federal court judge ruled Wednesday that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms extends to 17-year-old Omar Khadr and ordered the agency to stop questioning him.

 

But the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says it is only fulfilling its mandate by questioning Khadr about his reported links to al-Qaeda. CSIS said it's reviewing the decision to determine if there are any grounds for an appeal.

 

Khadr is alleged to have killed a U.S. soldier with a grenade in a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002. He has never been formally charged with any crime, and he hasn't been allowed to see a lawyer.

 

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Dennis Edney, Khadr's lawyer, said CSIS agents should have read Khadr his rights and allowed him to see a lawyer before questioning him.

 

"You can't have citizens who live in Canada, entitled to the full protection of the constitution, and you can't have a second class of citizen who's in Guantanamo Bay and is allowed to be violated by his own government."

 

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Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a security consultant and former CSIS agent...

 

he said the fact that Khadr was questioned while in custody at Guantanamo confuses things.

 

"Here we have sort of a high-ranking court in Canada stating that the current detention process that the Americans have exercised in Guantanamo Bay is basically illegal."

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my article about Abdurahman Khadr

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