BIG WIN FOR OMAR!

The Federal Court of Appeals has finally released its judgement that Omar should not have been incarcerated in a Federal penitentiary. He is to be moved to a provincial facility. In April 2014, Omar's lawyer Dennis Edney had appealed a Federal Court ruling, arguing that Omar's 8-year sentence by the U.S. is a youth sentence. The three-judge bench agreed. Now Omar will have access to transition programs, education, and parole. Khadr's lawyer, Dennis Edney, said he's pleased the Appeal Court's decision gets his client out of "the hands of the Harper government." In a statement he said, the federal government would "rather pander to politics than to apply the rule of law fairly to each and every Canadian citizen." "This government chose to misinterpret the International Transfer of Offenders Act and place Omar in a maximum security prison, where he spent the first seven months in solitary confinement, instead of treating him as a youth as required under both Canadian and international law." Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/court-rules-omar-khadr-should-be-transferred-to-provincial-jail-1.1904027#ixzz36tvPmMcj The decision comes within days of revelations that the U.S. and Canada knew that the charges levelled against Omar by the military commission were bogus. In order for justice to be served, Omar must be released immediately and compensated for his immense suffering and the loss of his youth and young adulthood.