BRIEF: United States Military Commission Rejects Khadr's Motion to Dismiss

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – On April 30, 2008, a United States military judge denied Omar Khadr’s motion for dismissal due to a “lack of jurisdiction under the Military Commission Act in regard to juvenile crimes of a child soldier.”

Khadr argued that he was a child soldier when he was “captured in Afghanistan” and the United States military commission presiding over his trial lacked jurisdiction over his case because the United States’ Congress did not grant the military commission authority to “hear cases involving child soldiers charged with juvenile crimes.” 

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JURIST – Paper Chase: US military judge rules Khadr not a child soldier – 30 April 2008

Reuters – U.S. rejects Canadian’s child soldier defense – 2 May 2008