Omar Khadr was declared guilty.
A Canadian captured by American forces in Afghanistan at the age of 15 , Omar Khadr is currently on interim release from prison in Canada pending an appeal of his war-crimes conviction before a military commission in Guantanamo Bay . Omar Khadr . He pleaded guilty to murder and several war crimes in October 2010 at a hearing by a United States military commission . His conviction and sentence were widely denounced by civil rights groups and various newspaper editorials . His prosecution and imprisonment was condemned by the United Nations , which has taken up the issue of child soldiers .