Discrimination to the max in Guantanamo

[rudy-Diiriye]

check this out! the white boyz get released while the brown ones are kept for ever!! can u say kkk!!

 

SYDNEY, Australia - Confessed Australian al-Qaida supporter David Hicks was transferred to a maximum security prison in his hometown on Sunday after spending more than five years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

 

 

 

Hicks, the first of hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees to face a U.S. military tribunal, made the flight from Cuba in Gulfstream G550 jet chartered by the Australian government with an entourage of Australian police, prison officers and a lawyer.

 

He was taken to the Yatala Labor Prison in South Australia state, near his hometown of Adelaide. Hikcs will serve the final seven months of his sentence in the facility's highest security wing, alongside serial murderers and rapists.

 

Nevertheless, lawyer David McLeod said Hicks was thrilled to be home.

 

"He is happy to be back on Australian soil," McLeod told reporters outside Yatala prison. "He visibly was elated when we touched down."

 

Prison officials have said Hicks will be kept in a single-bed cell similar in size to the one he left in Cuba.

 

Hicks will not be allowed to have any personal effects, and visitors will be separated by a glass partition. His telephone calls will be monitored and he will be allowed little or no contact with other inmates, authorities have said.

 

Attorney General Philip Ruddock declined to comment on security arrangements, saying only "public safety is the primary concern."

 

Hicks, a former Outback cowboy and kangaroo skinner, was captured by the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in Afghanistan in December 2001, and became one of the first terrorist suspects to be transferred to the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

 

He pleaded guilty in March to providing material support to al-Qaida.

 

Under a plea bargain, he was sentenced to nine months in prison — a fraction of the life term he was eligible for on a charge of providing material support for terrorism. He also agreed to a 12-month order prohibiting him from talking to the media, and stated he had "never been treated illegally" since he was captured in Afghanistan and taken to Guantanamo.

 

Hicks was tried by a military tribunal under a system created by President Bush after the Sept. 11 attacks that has come under criticism as a violation of the prisoners' right to challenge their confinement in U.S. courts.

 

A Muslim convert, Hicks was accused of attending al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and conducting surveillance on the British and American embassies as part of his training. He had spent only two hours on the Taliban front line before it collapsed in November 2001 under attack by U.S. Special Forces and the Northern Alliance.

 

While fleeing, Hicks came across a group of Arab fighters who told him they were heading back to the front to fight to the death. Hicks declined to join them and was captured in December 2001 as he tried to escape into Pakistan, according to the military's charge sheet.

 

Hicks is due to be released at the end of December, when he may be free to speak to the media about his ordeal, despite the U.S. gag order, Ruddock said Sunday.

 

The attorney general said he did not believe Australia could enforce the media ban. But under local law Hicks, a convicted criminal, would not be allowed to sell his story.

 

"We are of the view that he's free — once he has concluded his penal servitude — to speak as he wishes, but not to profit," Ruddock told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

[N.O.R.F]

LoL@discrimination in Gitmo

 

Not exactly a place one would expect any form of rights ya Rudy,,,,

[Intuition]

Actually he's been through a lot that guy. The Yankees and the English have already taken some of their prisoners’ home; only reason this guy is finely out is because his father kept fighting to bring him home. He is only the second Aussie to come back. The first being Mumdu Habib (Arab origin) I think. He's since made a play about the ordeal.

Apparently Hicks has since denounced his religion awhile ago. I guess they got to him.

May Allah give the remaining prisoner strength and iman to overcome the oppression they face at the hands of the Americans.

[rudy-Diiriye]

northern, u right there, human rights are absent there but i betchaya only for the colored ones..

 

looks like this white trash has been having fun there writing plays etc.,

 

the point here is that only white prisoners are getting released while non whites are treated like non humans.