Omar Khadr

Omar Ahmed Said Khadr was born in Toronto on 19 September 1986.¹ Khadr was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 at the age of fifteen, held at Guantanamo for ten years, pleaded guilty before a United States military commission in 2010, and was repatriated to Canada in 2012.¹ He was released on bail in 2015, reached a settlement with the Canadian government in 2017 that included an official apology, and completed his release conditions in March 2019.¹

Khadr spent his childhood between Pakistan, Afghanistan and Canada, while his father Ahmed Khadr worked in Peshawar for charities aiding Afghan refugees.¹ On 27 July 2002 Khadr was captured at Ayub Kheyl in Afghanistan, critically wounded, after a firefight in which United States Sergeant Christopher Speer was fatally wounded; the United States alleged that Khadr threw the grenade that killed him.¹ Khadr was held at Bagram from 27 July to 29 October 2002, then at Guantanamo from 29 October 2002 to 28 September 2012, where he was among the youngest prisoners.¹ He faced five charges under the Military Commissions Act, including murder in violation of the laws of war.¹ In January 2010 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Canadian officials' participation in Khadr's interrogations at Guantanamo clearly violated his Charter rights, but it declined to order the government to seek his return to Canada.¹ On 25 October 2010 Khadr pleaded guilty under a plea agreement that capped his further custody at eight years; the article's infobox records the plea as later retracted.¹ Khadr was repatriated to Canada on 29 September 2012 and held in turn at Millhaven, the Edmonton Institution and Bowden.¹ He was released on bail on 7 May 2015.¹ In July 2017 his civil suit against the Canadian government was settled with a formal apology and a reported payment of C$10.5 million.¹ On 25 March 2019 Mary Moreau, Chief Justice of Alberta's Court of Queen's Bench, ruled that Khadr had served a period of community supervision that was in substance the conditional-supervision portion of his sentence.¹

This section sets out different positions as reported in the sources. It is not a verdict by the museum. The United Nations special representative Radhika Coomaraswamy criticised the trial of a person captured at fifteen before a military commission, and the article records that her request to attend as an observer was denied.¹ In the United States, Christopher Speer's widow Tabitha Speer and the injured soldier Layne Morris brought a civil suit against Khadr, and a Utah court granted them a default judgment of US$134 million in 2015 after he did not respond to the suit.¹ The article records that Canadian courts repeatedly found Khadr's Charter rights had been violated by Canadian officials' participation in his interrogation, while the United States proceedings rested on his guilty plea under his agreement with the military prosecution.¹

• Omar Khadr — English Wikipedia¹
• Omar Khadr — Arabic Wikipedia²
• Omar Khadr — Urdu Wikipedia³
• Omar Khadr — Wikidata Q302466⁴