child soldiers

Following up on my post earlier today that the Justice Department has decided not to oppose the American Civil Liberties Union’s motion to suppress tortured and coerced testimony in the habeas corpus case of Mohammed Jawad, it’s worth noting that the Obama administration still hasn’t said what it’s official position is regarding the use of [...]

When President Obama declared early in his presidency that he plans to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that was hardly the end of the matter. Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder must now figure out what to do with the 240 or so people still held there. And perhaps no cases cry out more [...]

As Spencer noted, in one of his first acts as president, Barack Obama yesterday asked military prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay to suspend all military commission trials of prisoners there. That means the ongoing proceedings for the five men accused of conspiring to plan the Sept. 11 attacks, as well as two alleged child soldiers, would [...]

The United States could be the first Western nation in recent years to try a prisoner for war crimes allegedly committed as a child.
So says the ACLU, which is calling on the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child and the U.N. Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict to stop the military commission [...]

Is it better to be a child stuck indefinitely at the Guantanamo Bay prison, or to stand trial by military commission?
Neither option sounds very good. But the question is becoming more urgent these days, as the Bush administration brings military commission charges against detainees arrested when they were teenagers, and as I’ve written before, insists [...]

The Bush administration is set to argue to the military commissions appeals court in Washington Tuesday that a confession obtained from a teenager under torture in Afghanistan should still be admissible against him at his trial.