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Canada pays C$10.5 million settlement to former Guantanamo inmate

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-guantanamo-khadr-idUSKBN19S0KH

 

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Canada paid a settlement of C$10.5 million ($8.1 million) to former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr, the Globe and Mail reported on Thursday.

The payout was given to Khadr on Wednesday and was cashed immediately, the report said, citing a source involved in the transaction. (tgam.ca/2tnsBoR)

Reuters reported earlier in the week that Canada's Liberal government would apologize to Khadr and pay him a compensation.

A Canadian citizen, Khadr was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 at age 15 after a firefight with U.S. soldiers. He pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. Army medic and became the youngest inmate held at the military prison in Cuba.

Khadr later recanted and his lawyers said he had been grossly mistreated. In 2010, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that Canada breached his rights by sending intelligence agents to interrogate him and sharing the results with the United States.

Khadr spent a decade in Guantanamo before being returned to Canada in 2012 to serve the rest of his sentence and was released in 2015. (reut.rs/2twHV0W)

Khadr was taken to Afghanistan by his father, an al Qaeda member, who apprenticed the boy to a group of bomb makers. The father died in a battle with Pakistani forces in 2003.

His case has divided Canadians. Human rights advocates such as Amnesty International say the one-time child soldier was denied due process while the then-Conservative government dismissed calls to seek leniency, noting he had pleaded guilty to a serious crime.

Khadr had sued Ottawa for C$20 million and the government would have weighed the political damage of continuing to fight him in court, Professor Audrey Macklin, chair of human rights law at the University of Toronto, said on Wednesday.

Crazy stuff.

 

What do ICF's Canadian residents think of this situation? 

 

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^ Your story is halfway through.

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/21/british-man-launched-isil-suicide-attack-guantanamo-bay-detainee/

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British man who launched Isil suicide attack was Guantanamo Bay detainee awarded £1m compensation

British Islamic State fighter who carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq this week is a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was paid £1 million compensation by the government.

Jamal al-Harith, a Muslim convert born Ronald Fiddler who detonated a car bomb at an Iraqi army base near Mosul, was released from the US detention camp in 2004 and successfully claimed compensation after saying British agents knew or were complicit in his mistreatment.

He was freed following intense lobbying by Tony Blair’s Labour government.

 

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Only positive is that some Pakistanis will see this as an opportunity to make millions and line up to go to Guantanamo :dontknow:

 

On a serious note, I guess such acts could be because of the bad rep of Guantanamo. A 15 yrs old spending 10 yrs or more there, along with being mistreated, potentially played a part in the payout. But $10.5M is a lot of $$$

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http://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india-pay-rs-10-lakh-as-compensation-to-farooq-ahmed-dar-who-tied-to-army-jeep-j-k-human-rights-body-tells-govt-latest-breaking-news-today-390479

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The Jammu and Kashmir Human Rights Commission has directed the state government to provide Rs 10 lakh as "compensation" to Farooq Ahmed Dar, the Kashmiri man who was picked up by an Army major and used as a human shield by security forces earlier this year, ANI reported today.  

Dar, an embroidery artisan, was tied to a jeep while security forces attempted to escape from a stone pelting mob during Srinagar Parliamentary bypoll on April 9. Major Leetul Gogoi, who took the decision to tie the civilian to the Army jeep, said Dar was himself a part of a stone pelting mob that attacked a poll party. 

It looks like a Canada might be pulled in India. The Human Rights Commission should be charged 10 crore for such a stupid judgement. 

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