Canada High Court Rules Guantánamo Ex-Inmate Omar Khadr Is Youth Offender

Canada’s high court has rejected Ottawa’s bid to treat former Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr, who was just 15 when he was captured on an Afghan battlefield, as an adult criminal.
The government had brought the legal challenge to prevent Khadr’s transfer from a Canadian federal penitentiary to a more comfortable provincial correctional facility for petty criminals and young offenders. The supreme court decision on Thursday is now moot since Khadr was released on bail last week. Khadr was repatriated to Canada in September 2012, after spending 10 years in the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba following his arrest in Afghanistan as a teenager in 2002.