apathy maybe
31st March 2007, 15:08
Originally posted by BBC+--> (BBC)Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks will be sent home to serve nine months in prison after being sentenced by a military judge at the facility.[/b]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6512945.stm
Originally posted by [email protected]
David Hicks moved closer to returning to his native Australia yesterday after five years as a prisoner at Guantánamo by agreeing to serve a seven-year term for providing material support to al-Qaida.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story...src=rss&feed=12 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,2047047,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12)
ABC
Hicks will be a free man by the end of the year, after he pleaded guilty to training with Al Qaeda and fighting with its forces in Afghanistan against US allies for two hours in late 2001.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1886515.htm
This fellow who could not have been charged under Australian law, is now getting to go home. Regardless of if he did or didn't do anything, he has spent five years in a shithole. And others continue to. The fact that the Australian government refused to ask the US government to send him home is a disgrace.
Under the plea bargain, he can't speak about what happened for a year, won't sure the US government and has other conditions on what he can and can't do.
Because he was basically forced to plea, the is a strong likely hood of him appealing the conditions and sentence.
Hick's Australian Lawyer(s) have a case before the Supreme Court to order the Australian Government to do something, does anyone know what is happening with that case?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6512945.stm
Originally posted by [email protected]
David Hicks moved closer to returning to his native Australia yesterday after five years as a prisoner at Guantánamo by agreeing to serve a seven-year term for providing material support to al-Qaida.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story...src=rss&feed=12 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,2047047,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12)
ABC
Hicks will be a free man by the end of the year, after he pleaded guilty to training with Al Qaeda and fighting with its forces in Afghanistan against US allies for two hours in late 2001.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1886515.htm
This fellow who could not have been charged under Australian law, is now getting to go home. Regardless of if he did or didn't do anything, he has spent five years in a shithole. And others continue to. The fact that the Australian government refused to ask the US government to send him home is a disgrace.
Under the plea bargain, he can't speak about what happened for a year, won't sure the US government and has other conditions on what he can and can't do.
Because he was basically forced to plea, the is a strong likely hood of him appealing the conditions and sentence.
Hick's Australian Lawyer(s) have a case before the Supreme Court to order the Australian Government to do something, does anyone know what is happening with that case?