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| Canada spy agency ignores detainee's rights | |
| 2009-07-16 | |
[Al Arabiya Latest] Canada's spy agency ignored human rights concerns while questioning teenage Canadian terrorism suspect Omar Khadr at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba in 2003, a government-commissioned report published Wednesday found.
"SIRC believes that CSIS failed to take into account that, while in U.S. custody, Khadr had been denied certain basic rights which would have been afforded to him as a youth," the report said. The report examined the role played by Canadian intelligence in the detention of Khadr, now 22 years old, who is accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan in 2002. Khadr, who was just 15 at the time of his arrest, is the last Western detainee at the U.S.-run prison camp at Guantanamo. "At the time that CSIS interviewed Mr Khadr in 2003, there were widespread allegations of mistreatment and abuse of detainees in U.S. custody in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, (yet the) SIRC did not find any evidence that CSIS took this information into account in deciding to interview Mr Khadr," the report said. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Does this mean that BO will call for UN sanctions against Canada? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-07-16 11:39 |