EDMONTON — Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is to ask Alberta’s youth court today to declare his eight-year sentence to have expired. His lawyer, Nate Whitling, has said that the youth court judge has the authority to terminate the sentence and say it’s over. His application asks the judge to place Khadr under conditional supervision for one day then declare his sentence served. The international treaty under which he was transferred to Canada from Guantanamo Bay could be interpreted as precluding such a review. Since his release on bail, Khadr has lived in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alta., without incident.

Source: National Post February 26, 2019 13:38 UTC