(former Guantanamo detainee) David Hicks memoir: Australia opens case to seize cash

alp227

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Tue Aug-02-11 10:15 PM
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(former Guantanamo detainee) David Hicks memoir: Australia opens case to seize cash

Source: BBC News

Australia's government has launched a court action against former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks in a bid to seize profits from his autobiography.

The case is being brought under a law banning profits from crime.

Hicks's legal team says the law does not apply because his conviction by a US military commission at Guantanamo Bay was invalid.

Hicks spent five years at the facility before pleading guilty to providing material support for terrorism.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14383647

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Solly Mack

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Tue Aug-02-11 11:05 PM
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1. K&R

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Wed Aug-03-11 07:49 AM
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2. This is so wrong. He didn't commit any crime here...

And he only pleaded guilty to get out of that hell-hole where he was being tortured by the US.

This is yet another reason I'm fast losing any faith I had in the Gillard government...

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