Alberta court to decide if Omar Khadr’s war crimes sentence expired

Source: The Canadian Press, March 25, 2019 

Omar Khadr wants war crimes sentence expired.

An Alberta judge is expected to rule Monday on whether a war crimes sentence for former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr should be declared expired.

The eight-year sentence imposed in 2010 would have ended last October had Khadr remained in custody.

But the clock stopped ticking when a judge freed him on bail in 2015 pending Khadr’s appeal of his military conviction.

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