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Australia Freezes Ex-Gitmo Inmate's Assets

Mark Russell — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:37:27 CDT

An Australian man who was captured fighting with Taliban forces in Afghanistan and spent five years in Guantanamo Bay prison , where he says he was tortured, has had a family trust frozen by the Australian Supreme Court, reports ABC News in Australia. The trust contains money David Hicks earned from...

Aussie Hicks May Get Rich on Gitmo Story

Jane Yager — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:20:00 CST

A worldwide media bidding war has erupted for rights to the story of Australian David Hicks, the only Guantanamo prisoner convicted of terrorism charges, who was released a month ago from an Australian prison. If Hicks sells his story, he would violate Australian proceeds-of-crime laws, but his advisers are resolved...

Aussie Gitmo Convict Freed From Prison

Will McCahill — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:13:52 CST

David Hicks, who pleaded guilty to aiding al-Qaeda in a US military court at Guantanamo, walked free from a jail in his native Australia on Saturday local time after finishing his sentence. Hicks, 32, was captured fighting alongside Taliban forces in Afghanistan in 2001 and served 5 years at Gitmo...

Gitmo Gears up for Terror Trials

Peter Fearon — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:38:54 CDT

A high-security mobile courtroom complex is under construction at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base as officials prepare to try 9/11 suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other high profile al-Qaeda figures. Military tribunals will try as many as 80 detainees at the complex, three at a time, Reuters reports. Critics complain...

Guantanamo Detainee Returns to Australia

M. Morris — Sat, 19 May 2007 21:33:01 CDT

After five years in custody at Guantanamo Bay, David Hicks is back in his native Australia, where the convicted Al-Qaeda supporter will spend the next seven months in a maximum-security prison. His family and other supporters spent years campaigning for his release before Hicks pleaded guilty in March to providing...

Hicks Will Walk After 9 Months

Caroline Miller — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:06:59 CDT

Australian terror suspect David Hicks will serve just nine months more in detention, the AP reports, despite receiving a seven-year sentence from a military tribunal at Guantánamo yesterday. In an extraordinary plea deal, the rest of the sentence was suspended in exchange for his silence about his treatment during his...

Gitmo Detainee Pleads Guilty

Colleen Barry — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:33:24 CDT

David Hicks became the first person convicted under President Bush's much-maligned military tribunal system after entering a surprise guilty plea to charges of providing material support to terrorists. The contentious proceedings may prove a new source of controversy, however, as the judge excluded Hicks' stwo civilian lawyers from court and...