[news] One Guantanamo Captive: Canadian Omar Khadr (AI)

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Amnesty International USA | November 2005

"Young enemy combatants are treated in a manner appropriate to their age and status." - Letter from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Butler to Amnesty International, July 2003

Omar Khadr was taken into US custody when he was 15 years old. The US government has said that all detainees are "treated in a manner appropriate to their age and status". If this is true, then the case of Omar Khadr indicates that an "appropriate manner" involves torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment as well as denial of any form of justice.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3597