Omar Ahmed Khadr

Reuters is reporting that A Canadian teen charged with killing a U.S. Army medic in Afghanistan told a Guantanamo war crimes tribunal on Wednesday that he was being unfairly punished and would no longer participate.

Omar Khadr, 19, who the U.S. military says was trained by the al Qaeda militant group, told the court he was being punished for exercising his rights but did not elaborate.

His military lawyer, Lt. Col. Colby Vokey, angrily said Khadr had been moved to solitary confinement "for no reason whatsoever" on March 30, making it difficult to prepare a defense.

Who is Omar Ahmed Khadr?
I was surprised to see that he was so young!
His bio on Wikipedia has alot to say him and his family.

Below is the article from Wikipedia.

Omar Ahmed Khadr born September 16, 1987 (some sources say September 19, 1986) in Ottawa), is a Canadian teenager who was captured by American forces in Afghanistan. He is almost the youngest prisoner being held in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

On July 27, 2002, 14- or 15-year-old Khadr was in a compound near Khost that was surrounded by US special forces. According to the US version of events, the Americans called on those in the compound to surrender. When they refused a firefight ensued. Sergeant Layne Morris was injured early in the skirmish.

The Americans called in a bombardment.
Most press accounts of the skirmish say that Khadr killed a "medic", implying that he had attacked a noncombatant after giving his surrender, but although Sgt. Christopher Speer had been trained as a medic, he was actually leading the squad combing the compound after they believed all occupants had been killed.

A video-tape was reportedly found in the ruins showing Khadr planting mines. The Americans say that while being interrogated at Bagram Air Base, Khadr confessed to entering a US occupied section of Afghanistan, to gather surveillance intelligence on the local airport.


Incarceration at Guantánamo Bay
There were other detainees incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay who were still just children. They were kept in a smaller compound, Camp Iguana, where they were treated humanely. They were not required to wear the orange coveralls. They were provided with school teachers, and recreation. The BBC interviewed one 13-year-old child detainee upon his return to Afghanistan. He had learned to read at Camp Iguana. The two years he spent there were the only education he had ever had, and he reported being sorry to leave.

Elaine Chao the US Secretary of Labor has spoken about the responsibility to give child soldiers special treatment, to provide help for them to re-integrate into society.[3] She announced a $3 million program to help re-integrate child-soldiers in Afghanistan back into Afghan society.
But Khadr was not kept with the other child detainees.

Khadr was treated as an adult. Khadr has been reported to have been kept in solitary confinement, for long periods of time; to have been denied adequate medical treatment; to have been subjected to "short shackling", and left bound, in uncomfortable "stress positions" until he soiled himself. In a press conference on January 16, 2005, Khadr's lawyers described how Khadr's captors took Khadr's still bound body and wiped his hair and clothes in his urine and feces.

Khadr leapt from hiding and threw a grenade, which killed Sgt. Speer, and injured 3 other members of the squad.[1] Omar was shot three times, and left nearly blind in one eye.

Khadr was charged with murder for his actions against the squad inside the compound near Khost, Afghanistan. The charges against Mr. Khadr allege that his father, the late Ahmed Said Khadr, a Canadian Islamic extremist, was a close friend of Osama bin Laden and his Egyptian deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, and that Omar Khadr also was acquainted with Mr. bin Laden, the Al Qaeda leader.

On November 9, 2005, the Globe and Mail reported that the United States had informally indicated they would not seek the death penalty in Omar's trial, though there was no official assurance. On December 1, 2005 the officers were appointed to the Guantanamo military commission that would judge Khadr