Omar Khadr

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Omar Ahmed Said Khadr (Arabic: عمر أحمد سعيد خضر, romanized: ʻUmar Aḥmad Saʻīd Khiḍr; born September 19, 1986) is a Canadian who, at the age of 15, was detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for ten years, during which he pleaded guilty to the murder of U.S. Army Sergeant 1st Class Christopher Speer and other charges. He later appealed his conviction, claiming that he falsely pleaded guilty so that he could return to Canada where he remained in custody for three additional years. Khadr sued the Canadian government for infringing his rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, where his lawsuit was settled in 2017 with a CA$10.5 million payment and an apology from the federal government. Khadr was born in Canada in 1986, and was taken to Afghanistan by his father, who was allegedly affiliated with Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations. On July 27, 2002, at age 15, Khadr was critically wounded during fighting between U.S. soldiers and Taliban fighters in the village...

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