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After two months of efforts by Edmonton lawyer, Dennis Edney, Omar Khadr has finally been transferred from Millhaven Institution, where he was deemed in danger, to Edmonton’s maximum-security prison on Tuesday evening. Previously Khadr has spent more than 11 years in the utterly notorious American military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, for 11 years. At the time when was only 15, Khadr was convicted of terrorism offences under the contentions military commission system that accepted confession made under torture at the time.
Harper government is still treating Khadr as a dangerous jihadist terrorist as it placed him in a solitary confinement while at Millhaven, where he was denied access to basic education programs, referring to which his lawyer argued that “conditions are no better than Guantanamo.” Khadr reached Canada from Guantanamo Bay detention camp in September 2012, when the government declined his request for transfer to the Edmonton Institution for the first time, instead he was sent to Millhaven, near Kingston.
Khadr was barely allowed to do work in prison in March as Edney explains that “his job was to hand out butter, one piece, no more.” Edney elucidated an incident which put Khadr’s life in danger at Millhaven, narrating that “when an inmate demanded more and Omar, following the rules, refused. As a result he was threatened with stabbing and a contract put out on his life.” He added “after that, he was moved into segregation to protect for his safety,” and emphasized that “I’ve been negotiating for his transfer since then.”
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