Guantanamo detainee, Mohammed Jawad, is accused of wounding two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter with a grenade in December 2002 while a teenager. Afghan police threatened to kill the accused's family at the Kabul police station where he was interrogated and forced to confess.
Yesterday, the confession was excluded from Jawad's trial in war court.
"'Torture' includes statements obtained by use of death threats to the speaker or his family," wrote Henley, the military judge. "The actual infliction of physical or mental injury is not required."
This goes against Bush administration legal opinion which does not consider threats to family members torture.
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