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Australia Guantanamo detainee Hicks petitions UN over alleged rights violations
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has filed an appeal with the UN Human Rights Committee complaining of multiple violations of international law stemming from his five-year incarceration at Guantanamo from 2002 to 2007. Hicks, an Austra (More) |
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Australia judge freezes profits from ex-Guantanamo detainee book
An Australian judge on Wednesday froze the profits from a memoir written by former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks . Hicks spent more than five years without trial in US custody after being captured in Afghanistan following the terror attacks o (More) |
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Australia to sue ex-Guantanamo detainee for book royalties
The Australian government announced Thursday that it will sue former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks for royalties from his memoir. Hicks spent more than five years without trial in US custody after being captured in Afghanistan following the (More) |
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Ex-Guantanamo detainee Hicks should be cleared: lawyer
The former defense lawyer for Australian ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Sunday that his former client should be cleared of all links to terrorism because he never committed a crime. The lawyer, Steve Kenny, said he has been unable to (More) |
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Australia 'unlikely' to accept foreign Guantanamo detainees
Australian acting prime minister Julia Gillard on Friday said it was "unlikely" that the country would accept foreign detainees released from the Guantanamo Bay military prison, but that her country was considering a second request to d (More) |
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Australia to consider accepting released Guantanamo prisoners
A spokesman for Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd [official website; BBC profile] said Saturday that Australia would be willing to consider acceptance of Guantanamo Bay detainees on a case-by-case basis, according to a report in The Australian. (More) |
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Australia government lifts control order on ex-Guantanamo detainee Hicks
Australian authorities on Sunday removed the final restrictions against former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks . Hicks, who served more than five years in the military prison without a trial before pleading guilty to providing material support (More) |
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Federal judge rules Lindh commutation petition exempt from FOIA disclosure
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday held in Associated Press v. United States Department of Justice that the petition for commuted sentence of charged Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh falls under invasion-of-privacy except (More) |
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Australia police to lift control order on ex-Guantanamo detainee Hicks
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced Thursday that they will lift restrictions on former Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks . The announcement came after Hicks issued a plea by posting a video on the website of Australian adv (More) |
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Report from Guantanamo: Al-Bahlul case shows trials should be held in federal courts
Sharon Kelly [Elect to End Torture Campaign Manager, Human Rights First]: "One week before the presidential election, the Guantanamo trials grind slowly on, although this week's trial of Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al-Bahlul, a Yemeni accused o (More) |
English Bill of Rights took effect
On December 16, 1689, the English "Bill of Rights" went into effect.
Review An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown.
