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...which his lawyers are resisting, noting that he was a child at the time of the alleged crime. The U.S. has said Khadr was among the few juveniles being held at Guantánamo Bay. But a TIME analysis of data released earlier this month by the Pentagon indicates that Gitmo might have held as many as 24 prisoners under age 18, more than previously known. The real figure could be higher, given imprecise date-of-birth data for some detainees...
...international law, including the Geneva Conventions, requires that child prisoners be separated from adults and receive education while in detention. U.S. federal law has similar requirements and defines a juvenile as under 18. The Pentagon, which classifies only those younger than 16 as juveniles, has never denied that some Gitmo inmates under 18 were not segregated. Many of these youths were subject to the same conditions and interrogations as the adults. Some still at Gitmo have claimed through their lawyers that they have been beaten or abused...
...mini-riot erupted just as a United Nations panel monitoring compliance with the U.S.-ratified "Convention Against Torture" called on Washington to close Gitmo. The panel also urged the U.S. to ban interrogation techniques that critics have described as torture and to stop the secret transfer of prisoners to other countries...
...White House response came swiftly. Spokesman Tony Snow insisted that all prisoners in U.S. custody are treated "fully within the boundaries of American law." The State Department, which had prepared a 184-page defense of U.S. detention practices in advance of the panel's ruling, denied abuse at Gitmo or elsewhere and argued that the U.N. had overstepped its mandate by calling for the camp's closure...
...there are signs that the White House may be having second thoughts. A Supreme Court ruling expected next month could give Gitmo's 460 prisoners full public hearings in U.S. courts. President Bush, who has labeled Gitmo home to "the world's most dangerous terrorists," earlier this month acknowledged international criticism, saying, "Obviously, the ... issue is a sensitive issue for people. I very much would like to end Guantánamo...