Post by spikeyred on Dec 10, 2007 20:02:34 GMT 10
By national security correspondent Leigh Sales
If the control order is approved, it will limit Hicks' movements once he leaves Adelaide's Yatala prison. (File photo)
If the control order is approved, it will limit Hicks' movements once he leaves Adelaide's Yatala prison.
Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland has given the Australian Federal Police (AFP) the go-ahead to seek a control order against former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks.
Neither Mr McClelland's office nor the AFP would comment on this development, saying it is an operational matter.
But the ABC understands the Attorney-General has granted the AFP permission to seek a control order on Hicks before the Federal Magistrates Court in Adelaide.
The AFP has not yet lodged the paperwork, but will do so within days.
If the control order is approved, it will limit Hicks' movements once he leaves Adelaide's Yatala prison on December 29.
He will be under a curfew, prohibiting him from being out between midnight and 5am and will have to report three times a week to police in Adelaide.
David Hicks' father, Terry, says some conditions of the control order are too harsh, because his son does not pose a risk to the public.
"All David wants to do is get on with his life [and] get a job, go to university," he said.
"He's not going to be any harm to anybody."
Hicks has served a nine-month sentence in Australia after pleading guilty to one terrorism charge in a controversial hearing at Guantanamo Bay.
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/10/2114828.htm
This is just fucked up shit. The guy pleaded guilty to internationally illegal, retrospectively applied, ambiguous charges after being tortured and held inhumanley for five years, and being put under Duress. What a fucking crock of shit. There was another guy who got put on one of these, after suffering extraordinary rendition and torture by the CIA, and that turned out to be a crock of shit too.
I think we should oppose this move and discuss it further.
If the control order is approved, it will limit Hicks' movements once he leaves Adelaide's Yatala prison. (File photo)
If the control order is approved, it will limit Hicks' movements once he leaves Adelaide's Yatala prison.
Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland has given the Australian Federal Police (AFP) the go-ahead to seek a control order against former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks.
Neither Mr McClelland's office nor the AFP would comment on this development, saying it is an operational matter.
But the ABC understands the Attorney-General has granted the AFP permission to seek a control order on Hicks before the Federal Magistrates Court in Adelaide.
The AFP has not yet lodged the paperwork, but will do so within days.
If the control order is approved, it will limit Hicks' movements once he leaves Adelaide's Yatala prison on December 29.
He will be under a curfew, prohibiting him from being out between midnight and 5am and will have to report three times a week to police in Adelaide.
David Hicks' father, Terry, says some conditions of the control order are too harsh, because his son does not pose a risk to the public.
"All David wants to do is get on with his life [and] get a job, go to university," he said.
"He's not going to be any harm to anybody."
Hicks has served a nine-month sentence in Australia after pleading guilty to one terrorism charge in a controversial hearing at Guantanamo Bay.
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/10/2114828.htm
This is just fucked up shit. The guy pleaded guilty to internationally illegal, retrospectively applied, ambiguous charges after being tortured and held inhumanley for five years, and being put under Duress. What a fucking crock of shit. There was another guy who got put on one of these, after suffering extraordinary rendition and torture by the CIA, and that turned out to be a crock of shit too.
I think we should oppose this move and discuss it further.
