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Sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin of Canadian detainee Omar Khadr in August in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Janet Hamlin/Pool) Two Quebec film directors have produced a documentary about the interrogation of Omar Khadr, the Toronto-born man accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, that will soon be screened on Parliament Hill.
Vous n'aimez pas la vérité: quatre jours à Guantanamo (You Don't Like the Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo) had its world premiere last week at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal.
The Bloc Québécois plans to screen it for MPs in Ottawa this Wednesday.
The documentary comes amid reports of a plea deal for Khadr, now 23, who is the last Western prisoner left in the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba. Ottawa has been mum on the question of the plea deal.
Luc Côté, one of the directors of Vous n'aimez pas la vérité, says he has been told by Khadr's lawyers that some of documentary will be used during closing arguments at his trial.
Khadr's next trial date, repeatedly postponed, is Oct. 25.
Khadr was arrested in Afghanistan after a 2002 firefight in which a U.S. medic died.
Two years ago, Khadr's lawyers obtained video images of four days of interrogation Khadr, then 16, underwent by agents of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in 2003.
The Supreme Court of Canada declared the interrogation a violation of Khadr's rights and ordered the footage released.
The video shows Khadr saying "finally" when Canadian representatives arrive to talk to him and follows efforts by the agents to get Khadr to present evidence that would be detrimental to his own case.
Vous n'aimez pas la vérité combines footage of his interrogation with comments by his lawyers, fellow prisoners, ex-diplomats, relatives and former members of the U.S. military, most of them appalled at his treatment.
Co-director Patricio Henriquez called the film an autopsy of a failure by CSIS.
"They return with nothing, and it is a total failure for everyone — for the agents because they do not do their job and for Omar because he is still in Guantanamo," he told Radio-Canada, speaking in French.
Although the video released by the Supreme Court is in the public domain, Henriquez and Côté are the first filmmakers to attempt to present it publicly. Cote says the sound quality is poor, so only part of the interrogation video was useable.
The documentary was turned down for film funding from both federal and provincial agencies and did not make the cut for other festivals across the country. It is scheduled to be screened at an Amsterdam film festival next month.
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