Os advogados para Omar Khadr estão pedindo uns ESTADOS UNIDOS. as forças armadas julgam para os nomes dos interrogators que questionaram o cidadão canadense em Afeganistão em uma tentativa de provar que estêve torturado.

Os advogados de Khadr deviam aparecer em um hearing pretrial quinta-feira para os 21 year-old, que fosse prendido na facilidade da baía de Guantanamo desde que sua captação 2002 durante uma batalha em Afeganistão.

É acusado do assassinato na morte do Sgt. americano do medic Primeira classe Christopher J. Speer. Khadr é carregado também com espiar, o conspiracy e o terrorismo suportando.

Durante questionar em uns ESTADOS UNIDOS - funcione o centro do detention no norte da base aérea de Bagram de Kabul depois que sua captação, Khadr era como dizer citado ele quis matar muitos de soldados americanos. According to the statement, Khadr said the Taliban were offering a $1,500 bounty for each U.S. soldier.

Court documents later revealed interrogators at the air base used attack dogs and hung prisoners by their wrists.

Khadr’s lawyers want the chance to cross-examine the interrogators during the military tribunal. If it is proven Khadr’s statement was extracted by torture, his lawyers argue it should be wiped from the record.

His trial, due to start on May 5, would likely be delayed until the summer if the judge grants Khadr’s lawyers’ request.

Khadr’s lawyers also argue their client should be freed because trying him for crimes he allegedly committed as a minor contravenes international law. He was 15 when he was captured.

The U.S. and Canada are signatories to a United Nations protocol that states fighters under age 18 are to be considered as child soldiers. Under those international obligations, child fighters must be released and helped to reintegrate into society.

Khadr’s U.S. military lawyer, Lt.-Cmdr. Bill Kuebler, alleges Khadr has been threatened with rendition to places where he would be raped. Kuebler also said he believes allegations Khadr has been beaten, has had dogs turned on him and is nearly blind. Earlier reports said Khadr is blind in one eye, with deteriorating sight in his other eye.

Last month, a trio of opposition MPs called for Ottawa to intervene in the case.

About 275 men are being held at the military base on suspicion they are linked to al-Qaeda or the Taliban. Thirteen of the prisoners have been charged.

The heavily criticized military tribunal system has yet to complete a trial.

Original rules allowed the military to exclude the defendant from his own trial, permitted statements made under torture, and forbade appeal to an independent court, but the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the system in 2006 and a revised procedure has included some additional rights.

CBC News
With files from the Associated Press

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