The objective is to determine whether the Canadian Omar Khadr, known as the “child soldier” and it takes 8 years at Guantanamo since he was arrested at age 15 in Afghanistan, was tortured into confessing the murder of some Americans abroad, reported DPA news agency.
Under a new law passed during the Obama administration, evidence obtained by inhumane treatment can not be used in military courts.
Khadr be brought to trial in July, which will be the first to one of the controversial military tribunals in time of Obama created by his predecessor, George W. Bush.
Canadian accused of killing a U.S. soldier with a hand grenade in 2002 during a fight in Afghanistan.
During the hearing up to two weeks, will decide whether prosecutors can use in the process a series of confessions of guilt by the youth, who already has 23 years, as evidence.
Proponents claim that these confessions were extracted under torture.
Eric Montalvo”s defense attorney explainede44that in 2002 the U.S. signed and ratified the optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The protocol was determined that the child soldiers would be prosecuted. There are several reasons, including the handling of juveniles who are subject to participate in wars and other conflicts.
Obama had criticized these military commissions, and suspended all judgments bit after assuming the presidency.
The U.S. president was in favor of conducting the trials of terrorism suspects in U.S. civilian courts. However, a year ago changed the course of its policy and decided that at least some of the suspects be tried by the commissions.
Still, got Congress to approve that the defendants in these processes have more rights than Bush times, so that, for example, are not more accepted as evidence confessions obtained through torture or abuse. (Telam) .- lau-jab28/04/2010 20:09