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Canada to hear appeal for Omar Khadr’s repatriation from Guantanamo

By David Parker

Canada’s Supreme Court will hear an appeal from the Canadian government of a lower court order to ask the United States to repatriate Canadian national Omar Khadr. Khadr is the only remaining citizen of a Western country detained at the infamous U.S. detention and torture centre, Guantanamo Bay. He was captured in 2002 in Afghanistan, [...]

Leonard Peltier denied parole after 32 years in prison

By David Parker

Last month, U.S. political prisoner Leonard Peltier was denied parole. Peltier has been imprisoned for 32 years, and is serving two life sentences for the deaths of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a 1975 standoff on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was convicted in 1977.
Amnesty International has called for the [...]