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The Age campaign: Bring David Hicks home

The Sunday Age newspaper is to be commended for taking a strong and principled stand in seeking to mobilise public opionion to have the Federal Government see to it that David Hicks is released from Guantanamo and returned to Australia:

"To be jailed for five years in Victoria you will need to kill someone while drunk driving, or be convicted of rape or manslaughter.

Once in prison, to be placed in solitary confinement you will need to be among the most violent, or the highly vulnerable.

David Hicks has not been convicted, but he has been jailed — for fi ve years, much of it in solitary confi nement, out of reach of his family and supporters.

He is an Australian citizen who has trained with terrorists, but he has broken no Australian law. By any measure, he has done his time.

Since 2002, hundreds of men like him have departed Guantanamo for countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. These countries have included Albania, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Yemen.

The Sunday Age invites readers to register their support to bring David Hicks home, and we will pass it on to the Federal Government.

Send your messages to bringdavidhome@theage.com.au."

Read the background to whole Hicks saga and the disgraceful behavour of A-G Ruddock here.

Comments

korova said…
December 9th has been declared as International Day of Action for David Hicks. We all need to continue the fight for David's release from Guantanamo.
December 03, 2006 9:37 pm
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