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2004-08-26 HICKS SAYS HE WAS ABUSED BY U.S. FORCES.
Australian terrorism suspect David Hicks appeared before a military commission in Guantanamo Bay for the first time Wednesday - pleading not guilty to all charges against him - as his lawyers moved to have the controversial tribunal shut down. The Age (Australia) reported that Hicks had an emotional early-morning reunion with his father Terry and stepmother. During the two tearful encounters, Hicks told his father he had been physically abused by US forces after his capture in Afghanistan and had suffered mental abuse at Guantanamo Bay. The physical abuse claim has been challenged by the report of a US investigation, released yesterday, which concluded that there was no evidence that either Hicks or Mamdouh Habib, the other Australian detained at Guantanamo Bay, had been abused by their U.S. captors. The Washington Post reported that Army Col. Peter E. Brownback III, who is presiding over the proceedings, adjourned the military commission for the case until Nov. 2, giving defense lawyers time to file motions seeking to have the charges dismissed. Brownback scheduled the trial to begin Jan. 10. Hicks could face life in prison if convicted.
Meanwhile, the American Forces Information Service reports that the prosecutions against detainees charged with crimes will exceed the international standard for such tribunals. Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Hemingway, in an interview with the Pentagon Channel and American Forces Press Service, said the commissions are not unique and have a long history in America.
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2004-06-10 PENTAGON APPROVES CHARGES AGAINST HICKS
The Defense Department today announced its charges against David Hicks, an Australian who becomes the third Guantanamo
detainee to be charged. Hicks is charged with conspiracy to commit war crimes, attempted murder by an unpriviliged belligerent, and aiding the
enemy. The Pentagon's news release specifies that prosecutors will not seek the death penalty and that Hicks' conversations with counsel will not be
monitored, based on the "security and intelligence circumstances" of his case. No trial date has been set. The charges are available here.
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2004-06-07 HICKS TRIBUNAL MAY NOT BE IN AUGUST.
Although Australian Prime Minister John Howard issued a statement on May 30 saying charges would be filed against suspected terrorist David Hicks in early June, a Pentagon spokesman told the Sunday Mail in South Australia that a timeline has not been set for the charges against the man, who is being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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2004-06-02 AUSTRALIA SAYS FIRST GITMO TRIBUNAL WILL BE IN AUGUST.
The Australian government says that one of its citizens imprisoned at the American naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, will be charged by the United States this month and is expected to go before a military tribunal sometime in August, The New York Times reported. A spokesman for the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C. said on Tuesday that Prime Minister John Howard would discuss the issue of the prisoner, David Hicks, with President Bush in a visit to the White House this week. Mr. Howard, in a statement over the weekend in Canberra, said he had been told that Mr. Hicks, who is accused of having fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan, would be tried in August.
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2003-12-15 AUSTRALIAN RADIO REPORTS ON U.S. MEDIA RESTRICTIONS.
Journalists in Australia have frequently reported (and complained about) on the restrictions limiting their ability to cover the incarceration of David Hicks, an Australian being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ABC radio correspondent Leigh Sales reports that it takes days to get questions answered and sometimes weeks and months to negotiate with U.S. officials for interviews.
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2003-11-26 U.S. AND AUSTRALIA ANNOUNCE "AGREEMENT" ON MILITARY COMMISSIONS.
The governments of the United States and Australia separately announced Tuesday that they had reached what was alternately described as an "agreement," an "understanding," and a series of "commitments" to pave the way for the U.S. to hold military trials for the two Australians detained in Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. announcement says the prosecution will not seek the death penalty against one of the detainees, David Hicks, but it is silent with respect to the other, Mamdouh Habib. It also gives a variety of "case-specific" assurances, such as that the prosecution "does not intend" to rely on evidence requiring closed proceedings, and that the trials will be open to the news media and Australian government representatives "subject to any necessary security restrictions." The Australian announcement uses nearly verbatim language. Additional coverage can be found in The New York Times.
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2003-11-05 AUSTRALIAN TERROR SUSPECT MAY BE CLOSE TO TRIAL, LAWYER SAYS.
According to a report today in the The Age [Melbourne, Australia], Australian terror suspect David Hicks has been moved to an isolated section of the base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. His lawyer told The Age that the move may signify that Hicks is being prepared for trial, although the lawyer said that U.S. officials haven't explained the move. In a separate story, The Australian reports that Hicks is "wasting away," according to a letter Hicks sent his father through the Red Cross. The U.S. still has not filed charges or initiated military tribunal proceedings against Hicks or any of the other approximately 660 detainees at Guantanamo.
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2003-07-07 SIX SUSPECTED TERRORISTS EXPECTED TO FACE MILITARY TRIBUNALS.
Last week, President Bush designated six suspected al Qaeda terrorists as eligible for trial before military tribunals, bringing the United States to the brink of its first prosecution of enemy prisoners since the aftermath of World War II. U.S. government officials who announced the president's action declined to name the six men, to describe the timeline for moving their cases forward or to say where they might be tried, though some officials said the site almost certainly will be the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
While U.S. officials refused to identify the six detainees, British officials said Friday that two Britons were among the six and that there were "serious concerns" in the government about the judicial process, according to the Washington Post. A spokesman for the Foreign Office said Washington had informed British diplomats of the names of the two Britons -- Moazzam Begg, 35, from Birmingham, and Feroz Abbasi, 23, from south London. Their parents were notified by British officials Thursday evening. Separately, the Australian government announced that one of its nationals, David Hicks, was among the six.
On Sunday, a Washington Post editorial criticized the Bush administration's claim of authority to unilaterally decide how any captive is legally designated and held -- and to unilaterally change that designation at any time. "This system is convenient for the government, offering all of the legitimacy the criminal justice system can confer without any of its discipline," the editorial said. "As a legal regime, however, it is unacceptable."
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