Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Omar Ahmed Khadr (born September 19, 1986) is a Canadian citizen who was captured and badly wounded in Afghanistan in July, 2002 at age 15 by American forces. He was held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp for 10 years. He pleaded guilty in October, 2010 to several purported war crimes prior to being tried by a United States military commission. He was the youngest prisoner and last Western citizen to be held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay. He accepted an eight-year sentence, not including time served, with the possibility of a transfer to Canada after at least one year to serve the remainder of the sentence.During a firefight on July 27, 2002, in the village of Ayub Kheyl, Afghanistan, in which several Taliban fighters were killed, Khadr, not yet 16, was severely wounded. After being detained, he was asked for information about Al Qaedaand subsequently sent to Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. During his detention, he was interrogated by Canadian as well as US intelligence officers.Khadr was the first person since World War II to be prosecuted in a military commission for war crimes committed while still a minor. His conviction and sentence were widely denounced by civil rights groups, anti-Western propagandists, and various newspaper editorials. His prosecution and imprisonment was condemned by the United Nations, which has taken up the issue of child soldiers.On September 29, 2012, Khadr was repatriated to Canada to serve the remainder of his sentence in Canadian custody. He was initially assigned to a maximum-security prison but moved to a medium-security prison in 2014. Khadr was released on bail pending an appeal of his U.S. conviction in May 2015 after the Alberta Court of Appeal refused to block his release as requested by the Canadian government.Khadr's lawyers successfully challenged his incarceration in Canada as an adult offender. In May 14, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected the federal government's position, ruling that Khadr had clearly been sentenced by the US military tribunal as a minor. If he loses his appeal of the US conviction, underway in a separate action, he would serve any remaining time in a provincial facility rather than in a federal penitentiary.In 2013, Khadr filed a CAN$20,000,000 amended civil suit against the government of Canada for conspiring with the US in abusing his rights. He said he had signed the plea agreement because he believed it was the only way he could gain transfer from Guantanamo, and claimed that he had no memory of the firefight in which he was wounded."@en }
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- Omar_Khadr abstract "Omar Ahmed Khadr (born September 19, 1986) is a Canadian citizen who was captured and badly wounded in Afghanistan in July, 2002 at age 15 by American forces. He was held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp for 10 years. He pleaded guilty in October, 2010 to several purported war crimes prior to being tried by a United States military commission. He was the youngest prisoner and last Western citizen to be held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay. He accepted an eight-year sentence, not including time served, with the possibility of a transfer to Canada after at least one year to serve the remainder of the sentence.During a firefight on July 27, 2002, in the village of Ayub Kheyl, Afghanistan, in which several Taliban fighters were killed, Khadr, not yet 16, was severely wounded. After being detained, he was asked for information about Al Qaedaand subsequently sent to Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. During his detention, he was interrogated by Canadian as well as US intelligence officers.Khadr was the first person since World War II to be prosecuted in a military commission for war crimes committed while still a minor. His conviction and sentence were widely denounced by civil rights groups, anti-Western propagandists, and various newspaper editorials. His prosecution and imprisonment was condemned by the United Nations, which has taken up the issue of child soldiers.On September 29, 2012, Khadr was repatriated to Canada to serve the remainder of his sentence in Canadian custody. He was initially assigned to a maximum-security prison but moved to a medium-security prison in 2014. Khadr was released on bail pending an appeal of his U.S. conviction in May 2015 after the Alberta Court of Appeal refused to block his release as requested by the Canadian government.Khadr's lawyers successfully challenged his incarceration in Canada as an adult offender. In May 14, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected the federal government's position, ruling that Khadr had clearly been sentenced by the US military tribunal as a minor. If he loses his appeal of the US conviction, underway in a separate action, he would serve any remaining time in a provincial facility rather than in a federal penitentiary.In 2013, Khadr filed a CAN$20,000,000 amended civil suit against the government of Canada for conspiring with the US in abusing his rights. He said he had signed the plea agreement because he believed it was the only way he could gain transfer from Guantanamo, and claimed that he had no memory of the firefight in which he was wounded.".