updated Mon. March 4, 2024
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Toronto Sun
April 20, 2018
There is no question that Trudeau Liberals are still stinging from the public flogging that came with handing $10.5 million to former Guantanamo Bay poster prisoner Omar Khadr for breaching his rights, and later another $31.25 million to three Syrian-Canadians supposedly tortured in Syria after beingÃâà...
Crimeola
April 15, 2018
Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen, was detained in Guantanamo Bay for 10 years. In 2017, he won an $8.0-million lawsuit against the Canadian government for an infringement of his rights related to his imprisonment. How did Boyle become romantically involved with the daughter of a man with allegedÃâà...
The Dickinsonian
April 12, 2018
Convicted terrorist and former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr became a millionaire after the Trudeau government paid him C$10.5 million to settle a court case Khadr had waged against the Canadian government. Khadr was captured in Afghanistan after he had killed U.S. Army SergeantÃâà...
CBC.ca
September 15, 2017
Former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr's application to have unsupervised visits with his sister was denied in an Edmonton courtroom on Friday. Access to Zaynab Khadr was one of a number of bail conditions the former U.S. prisoner who now lives in Edmonton had hoped the court would ease to giveÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
July 7, 2017
Canada has paid a settlement of C$10.5m ($8.1m) to former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr, reports say. The payout was given to Khadr on Wednesday and was cashed immediately, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported on Thursday, citing a source involved in the transaction. The governmentÃâà...
BBC News
July 4, 2017
Canada will issue an apology and compensation to former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr for abuses he suffered while in prison, reports say. Canadian-born Khadr, 30, was convicted in 2010 by a US military commission of killing a US soldier in Afghanistan. He was captured in 2002 at the age ofÃâà...
StCatharinesStandard.ca
December 31, 1999
OTTAWA — A Montreal man's lawsuit over his detention and alleged torture in Sudan is heading to a Federal Court hearing in September following the abrupt cancellation of settlement talks. The federal government recently nixed the planned mediation sessions in the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik justÃâà...
CANOE
December 31, 1999
Champ accused the government Tuesday of shelving the prospect of a resolution with Abdelrazik over “political blowback” from a multimillion-dollar settlement in a lawsuit filed by Toronto-born Omar Khadr. Abdelrazik, 56, came from Africa as a refugee in 1990 and attained Canadian citizenship five yearsÃâà...
CBC.ca
December 31, 1999
Last summer, the Trudeau government paid a $10.5 million breach-of-rights settlement in the case involving Omar Khadr, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Not long after that deal became public, Abdelrazik was approached by federal lawyers who asked if there was interest in resolving hisÃâà...
