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David Hicks

Fact Sheet: The 16 Prisoners Charged in Guantánamo’s Trials

27.5.08

As a 16th prisoner at Guantánamo, Noor Uthman Muhammed, is put forward for trial by Military Commission (the much-criticized system of trials for “terror suspects” invented in the wake of the 9/11 attacks), Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, provides a guide to the [...]

The politics of David Hicks’ release from Guantánamo confirmed: plea bargain arranged between Cheney and Howard

23.10.07

As if there was any doubt that politics, rather than justice, drives much of the US administration’s Guantánamo policy, Harper’s magazine reports that a US military officer has shed light on the murky process involved in the release of Australian detainee David Hicks from Guantánamo in May.
Hicks, a convert to Islam who was sold to [...]

The reviled Military Commissions collapse and the pressure to close Guantánamo increases, but a new prisoner arrives from Africa

13.6.07

It’s been another busy week at Guantánamo. On 4 June, the US administration attempted to hold the first of the reconvened Military Commissions since the farcical ‘trial’ of David Hicks in March, when the Australian Taliban volunteer –- persistently regarded by the administration as one of ‘the worst of the worst’, and one of only [...]

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