Canada Offers $8 Million In Compensation To Youngest Gitmo Detainee

OTTAWA, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 06th Jul, 2017 ) : The Canadian government will apologize to former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr and pay him around $8 million to compensate him for the abuse he suffered in detention, Daily Mail reported quoting two sources familiar with the matter as saying on Tuesday.

A Canadian Muslim citizen, Khadr, now 30, was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 at age 15 after a firefight with US soldiers. He pleaded guilty to killing a US army medic and became the youngest inmate held at the US military prison in Cuba.

Khadr later recanted and his lawyers said he had been grossly mistreated.

The Canadian Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that Canada breached his rights by sending intelligence agents to interrogate him and by sharing the results with the United States.

Khadr spent a decade in Guantanamo before being returned to Canada in 2012 to serve the rest of his sentence. He was released on bail in 2015 and lives in Edmonton, Alberta. The Canadian government and Khadr's lawyers reached the compensation deal, said the sources, who asked to remain anonymous given the sensitivity of the matter.