A US military judge for the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals has refused to reinstate the charges against a Canadian prisoner accused of killing a US soldier in Afghanistan.
The ruling in the case of Canadian captive Omar Khadr was released late on Friday, hours after the US Supreme Court said it would hear a challenge of the law that established the war crimes tribunals and stripped Guantanamo prisoners of their right to court review of their indefinite confinement.
Khadr, 21, is accused of killing one US soldier with a grenade and wounding another during a firefight at a suspected al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan in 2002. Prosecutors asked Brownback to reconsider and reinstate the charges, but he ruled on Friday that they had presented no new evidence or arguments.