OTTAWA--Former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr will seek bail in Canada pending an appeal of his war crimes conviction in the United States, his lawyer told AFP Friday.
Nathan Whitling said a bail hearing to get Khadr out of a Canadian prison, where he is serving the remainder of an eight-year sentence for an array of war crimes including killing an American soldier in Afghanistan, is set for March 24-25.
He said the US military commission that convicted Khadr did not have jurisdiction to hear his case and so "his convictions are invalid."
Khadr was repatriated to Canada in September 2012 after spending 10 years in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba following his arrest in Afghanistan as a teenager.
He was sentenced to eight years in 2010 following a military hearing in which he agreed to plead guilty to murder in violation of the laws of war, attempted murder, conspiracy, providing material support for terrorism and spying.
AFP
