Fed: Hicks should face law say MPs

AAP General News (Australia)
08-15-2006
Fed: Hicks should face law say MPs

Labor has again called for Guantanamo Bay detainee DAVID HICKS to be brought before
a court of law.

Attorney-General PHILIP RUDDOCK has told Fairfax newspapers .. the government wants
a US military tribunal to prosecute the Adelaide-born terrorist suspect and have fresh
charges in place by November.

HICKS has been incarcerated at the US prison in Cuba since he was captured allegedly
fighting with the Taliban against US forces in Afghanistan .. after the September 11 ..

2001 .. attacks.

Labor's homeland security spokesman ARCH BEVIS says HICKS should either be brought
before a proper court or released.

Labor backbencher GRAHAM EDWARDS says whatever it is HICKS has done or hasn't done
.. it's an absolute disgrace the Australian government has let him be treated in the way
that he has been by a foreign power.

AAP RTV nb/sb/jmt

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