EDMONTON – A lawyer representing former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr wants him moved out of a federal prison.
Dennis Edney has filed an application in court to have the 26-year-old transferred out of the maximum-security Edmonton Institution.
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He argues that Khadr, who is Canadian, was sentenced as a youth and should be in a provincial facility.
The application could be heard in court next month.
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Khadr was held for a decade in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba before he pleaded guilty to war crimes that included killing an American special forces soldier in Afghanistan when he was 15.
A U.S. military commission handed him another eight years behind bars.
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