AAP General News (Australia)
02-02-2007
Fed: Letter to US congress wants Hicks returned
Democrats .. Labor .. and Greens MPs .. have written to the Democratic Party speaker
of the US Congress .. NANCY PELOSI .. asking for help in bringing home Guantanamo detainee
DAVID HICKS.
The letter .. authored by Democrats leader Senator LYN ALLISON .. has been signed by
all Democrats .. Greens and almost all members of the Labor party.
Their letter states the US military commission process to try HICKS and other Guantanamo
Bay prisoners runs against basic American values.
HICKS' lawyers also claim the Australian was shown a photo of SADDAM HUSSEIN hanging
from a rope after his execution.
They say showing such photos to prisoners breaches the Geneva Conventions designed
to protect prisoners of war.
AAP RTV nb/wz/psm/
KEYWORD: HICKS LETTER (CANBERRA)
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