Omar Ahmed Sayid Khadr, a Canadian national, was born on September 19, 1986. He spent a significant portion of his childhood in detention, with a particularly tumultuous period between 2002 and 2012. On July 27, 2002, during the United States invasion of Afghanistan, Khadr, then just 15 years old, was severely wounded in a firefight that occurred in the village of Ayub Kheyl.
As a result of his injuries, Khadr was taken into custody and detained at Bagram Air Base before being transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba. During his imprisonment, he was subjected to interrogation by both Canadian and US intelligence officers. The circumstances surrounding his capture and detention are complex, with Khadr having been brought to Afghanistan by his father, who was affiliated with an extreme religious group.
Khadr's story took a dramatic turn on September 29, 2012, when he was repatriated to Canada to serve the remainder of his sentence in Canadian custody. Initially, he was assigned to a maximum-security prison but was later transferred to a medium-security facility in 2014.
In May 2015, Khadr was released on bail pending an appeal of his U.S. conviction. This decision came after the Alberta Court of Appeal refused to block his release, as had been requested by the Canadian government.
