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April 30, 2009

Lawyer Urges Release of Canadian Gitmo Prisoner
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Meanwhile, at Guantanamo, lawyers for the Canadian prisoner Omar Khadr
are calling on the Obama administration to drop charges ahead of a
looming deadline. Khadr’s military judge says he’ll resume court
proceedings on June 1st, unless the Obama White House extends its freeze
on Guantanamo cases or drops the charges. Khadr’s military attorney,
Eric Montalvo, called for his immediate release.

Eric Montalvo: “He’s been incarcerated since he was approximately
sixteen years old. Sixteen years old, he was taken off the streets of
Afghanistan and thrown into cages and held there up until now, and he’s
still not adjudicated. So we want to get him out of a cage and put him
back into society with his family and rehabilitate him. That’s our
effort at this point.”

Last week, a Canadian court ordered Canada’s government to seek Khadr’s
immediate return.



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