Meanwhile, at Guantanamo, lawyers for the Canadian prisoner Omar Khadr are calling on the Obama administration to drop charges ahead of a looming deadline. Khadr’s military judge says he’ll resume court proceedings on June 1st, unless the Obama White House extends its freeze on Guantanamo cases or drops the charges. Khadr’s military attorney, Eric Montalvo, called for his immediate release.

Eric Montalvo: “He’s been incarcerated since he was approximately sixteen years old. Sixteen years old, he was taken off the streets of Afghanistan and thrown into cages and held there up until now, and he’s still not adjudicated. So we want to get him out of a cage and put him back into society with his family and rehabilitate him. That’s our effort at this point.”

Last week, a Canadian court ordered Canada’s government to seek Khadr’s immediate return.