{"id":547159,"date":"2010-04-29T14:50:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=83555"},"modified":"2010-04-29T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:50:30","slug":"khadr-in-%e2%80%98extreme-pain%e2%80%99-voluntarily-appears-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547159","title":{"rendered":"Khadr, in \u2018Extreme Pain,\u2019 Voluntarily Appears in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GUANTANAMO BAY &#8212; Crisis averted. With his right hand shielding his eyes and dabbing at his eyes with a tissue, Omar Khadr returned to court for his pre-trial hearing. Joe DellaVedova, a spokesman for the military commissions, confirmed there was no <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/83541\/will-gtmo-honor-judges-request-for-khadr-to-appear-in-court\">forced cell extraction<\/a>. Khadr appeared voluntarily.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s doing well. <span id=\"more-83555\"><\/span>Khadr&#8217;s lawyer, Barry Coburn, told Col. Patrick Parrish, the judge in the case, that Khadr &#8220;has been and is now in a lot of physical pain&#8221; as the result of &#8220;foreign bodies&#8221; that remain in his eyes as the result of 2002-era shrapnel wounds he sustained during his capture in Afghanistan. The foreign bodies, combined with &#8220;severe conjunctivitis&#8221; in his non-functional left eye and some in his right, as well as elevated blood pressure, left him in &#8220;extreme pain,&#8221; Coburn said. Parrish agreed to end the hearing today at 4 p.m. accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Coburn said that the blacked-out goggles that detention-facility officials wanted Khadr to wear to transport him from his cell to court were &#8220;exacerbating&#8221; the pain. Commander Brad Fagan, a spokesman for the detention command, contradicted an earlier claim by Coburn, saying that Khadr&#8217;s treatment this morning followed &#8220;longstanding security transport procedures.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUANTANAMO BAY &#8212; Crisis averted. With his right hand shielding his eyes and dabbing at his eyes with a tissue, Omar Khadr returned to court for his pre-trial hearing. Joe DellaVedova, a spokesman for the military commissions, confirmed there was no forced cell extraction. Khadr appeared voluntarily. That doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s doing well. Khadr&#8217;s lawyer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}