{"id":135,"date":"2008-07-25T21:53:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T21:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rightoncanada.wordpress.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2008-07-25T21:53:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T21:53:04","slug":"six-years-in-guantanamo-bay-bring-omar-khadr-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Six Years in Guantanamo Bay. Bring Omar Khadr Home."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear RightOnCanada.ca Supporter,<a href=\"http:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/c.juIZLdMOJrE\/b.2517563\/siteapps\/advocacy\/ActionItem.aspx?c=juIZLdMOJrE&amp;b=2517563&amp;aid=11089\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kintera.com\/accounttempfiles\/account19536\/images\/omarkhadr-frnt.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know this is the time of year we take a break to spend time with family, but I hope you will take a moment to help rescue a young Canadian boy from the hell-hole of the Guantanamo Bay prison, where he may have been tortured.Canada is the only Western country with a citizen still detained in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002, when Omar Khadr was only 15 years old, he was involved in a battle with U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The U.S. military has accused him of throwing the grenade that killed an American soldier. It\u2019s a serious charge, but as a child at the time, Omar is another victim of the \u201cwar on terror\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Australia and Britain have successfully repatriated their citizens from Guantanamo Bay. Why hasn\u2019t Canada?<\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/c.juIZLdMOJrE\/b.2517563\/siteapps\/advocacy\/ActionItem.aspx?c=juIZLdMOJrE&amp;b=2517563&amp;aid=11089\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span>Please <\/span><span>write to Prime Minister Stephen Harper<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and demand that <\/span><span>Canada<\/span><span> petition the <\/span><span>U.S.<\/span><span> government to repatriate Omar Khadr to <\/span><span>Canada<\/span><span> to be tried fairly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In solidarity and thanking you,<\/p>\n<p><em>Kathleen, Peggy, Pauline and Becky for RightOnCanada.ca<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear RightOnCanada.ca Supporter, I know this is the time of year we take a break to spend time with family, but I hope you will take a moment to help rescue a young Canadian boy from the hell-hole of the Guantanamo Bay prison, where he may have been tortured.Canada is the only Western country with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rightoncanada-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}