Hicks' dad cages himself in New York as protest

[rooboy]

The father of an Australian imprisoned by the US military for allegedly fighting with the Taliban shut himself in a wire cage on a New York street today to highlight his son's plight.

"I wouldn't even keep a dog like this," Terry Hicks said, referring to his son David's incarceration for the past 19 months at the US military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

"I have a dire need to speak to David eye-to-eye. My main worry is his mental state," Hicks said.

David Hicks, from Adelaide, has been held without charge or access to legal counsel and faces trial by a special military tribunal.

While acknowledging that his son did appear to have fought in support of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Terry Hicks denied that he was a terrorist and questioned the legality of his military trial.

Washington classifies the 600 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay as "enemy combatants", effectively denying them the protection of the Geneva Conventions on the rights of prisoners of war.

The uncertain status makes it possible to hold them indefinitely without trial.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/29/1059244589271.html

[Laughing Mirror]

1. It is a death camp

calling itself a detention camp

[DUreader]

2. Any NYC Duers catch this? Good Idea for a mass Protest

[antineocon1]

3. Well, I for one think this man is doing a very brave thing...

He has a right to do this and the way these prisoners are treated is appalling. It goes against the constitution.

[dArKeR]

4. 'My son was trained by the CIA who trained Al Qaeda'. A NY DUer give

Terry this sign for his cage.

'What law was broken?' 'Where is the evidence?'


In the late 80s, Pakistan's then head of state, Benazir Bhutto, told the first President George Bush, you are creating a Frankenstein. But the warnings never quite filtered down to the cops and G-men on the streets of New York.
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