WATCH ABOVE: An Alberta justice is expected to rule Thursday morning on whether to block Omar Khadr’s bid for bail. Michel Boyer has the details.
EDMONTON – This could be one of the biggest day’s in Omar Khadr‘s life.
An Alberta justice rules this morning on whether to block his bid for bail.
If bail goes ahead, the 28-year-old Khadr will get his first taste of freedom in almost 13 years.
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The former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, however, will face numerous restrictions.
He will have to wear a tracking bracelet, observe a nighttime curfew, face limits on contact with his Toronto family, and live with his lawyer, Dennis Edney, in Edmonton.
Khadr won bail earlier while he appeals his war-crimes conviction in the United States, but Ottawa is trying to stop his release.
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