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Omar Khadr Officially Free

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An Alberta judge in Edmonton decided today Khadr’s 8-year sentence, imposed in 2010, has expired. The former Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of killing an American soldier in Afghanistan in 2002 has completed his sentence and is now as free as any other Canadian citizen. Scott Newark, Adjunct Professor in the TRSS Program in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University; Former Alberta Crown Prosecutor; Former Vice Chair of the Ontario Office for Victims of Crime; Former Security Policy Advisor to the governments of Ontario and Canada joins the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices