The military tribunals at Guantanamo, as they have been reformed by Barack Obama and Congress, prohibit any statement obtained under duress, but the judge let the opportunity to assess whether the degree of coercion used against a detainee justifies their deletion.

The legal officer of the young Canadian, now 23 years old and last Westerner still detained at Guantanamo, had asked the judge not to allow the prosecution based on those confessions obtained while he was detained in Bagram prison in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo.

One of the interrogators had assured a few months ago after questioning the teenager barely a fortnight after his arrest, as he lay on a stretcher after suffering several serious surgeries. He had been shot in the shoulder and the eye by a mortar during the battle that led to his arrest.

Omar Khadr also ensures he was deprived of sleep, bound for hours in uncomfortable positions or threatened with rape and death.

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