Amnesty recently issued a report entitled USA: In whose best interests? Omar Khadr, child 'enemy combatant' facing military commission, which examines the circumstances of Khadr's capture, his allegations of torture and other ill-treatment and the military commission trial he is now facing.
Omar is a Canadian national and has been in US military detention for over six years, since he was 15 years old. He was held and interrogated in Bagram air base for several months and transferred after his 16th birthday to Guatanamo Bay US Naval Base where he remains. No existing international tribunal has ever prosecuted a child for war crimes and the USA has ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (although they have not ratified the CRC itself). Although Omar is a Canadian national, Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister said in March that it would be "premature" for Canada to discuss Omar Khadr's repatriation.