Via ANCAPS: Young Gitmo Detainee: I've Been Tortured

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A young prisoner accused of throwing a grenade that injured two U.S. soldiers and their translator in Afghanistan called the Guantanamo war court illegal and unfair on Wednesday, and then refused to participate further.

"I've been tortured. I'm a human being. I have not violated any law," Afghan prisoner Mohammed Jawad said in his first hearing on charges of attempted murder and causing great bodily injury.

"I've been brought here illegally . I am innocent. It's an injustice to me," he said through a Pashto translator.

His hearing occurred as the United States stepped up efforts to get cases moving in the Guantanamo tribunals created by the Bush administration to try suspected terrorists. Outside the regular military and civilian court systems, they are the first U.S. war tribunals since World War Two.

U.S. military guards carried Jawad to the hearing after he refused to leave his cell to attend. The bearded young man, who said he was 16 when captured in Afghanistan in December 2002, ultimately walked into the red-carpeted courtroom on his own, his hands cuffed, legs shackled and guards on either side.

The judge, Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann, allowed Jawad to speak without interruption, even as he compared U.S. forces to the Taliban government that imprisoned and killed people without trial.

Kohlmann explained that the trial would go forward with or without his participation, and urged Jawad to accept a U.S. military lawyer who would argue his position that his treatment violated U.S. and international law.

"The fact that you don't want this hearing and you say it's unfair is not going to change the fact that this proceeding is going to be conducted," the judge said.

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Via ANCAPS: Young Gitmo Detainee: I've Been Tortured

Via ANCAPS: Young Gitmo Detainee: I've Been Tortured

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