This news from Guantanamo Bay. A military judge has barred defense attorneys for a twenty-one-year-old Canadian prisoner from revealing the identity of prosecution witnesses testifying against him. Omar Ahmed Khadr is likely to be the first Guantanamo prisoner to go to trial. He has been in US custody since he was fifteen years old. Khadr’s military-appointed defense lawyer, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, said, “Instead of a presumption of innocence and of a public trial, we start with a presumption of guilt and of a secret trial.”
Gitmo Attorneys Barred from Revealing Witness Names
HeadlineDec 03, 2007