12/12/2014
SYDNEY – David Hicks, the Australian who spent several years detained in Guantanamo, demanded explanations from the Australian Attorney-General, George Brandis, for being tortured during his detention, local media reported Thursday.
Hicks interrupted an awards ceremony for human rights in Sydney shortly after the U.S. Senate published a report on the brutal tactics employed by the CIA to interrogate suspects after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
“Hey, my name is David Hicks. I was tortured for five-and-a-half years in Guantanamo Bay in the full knowledge of your party. What do you have to say?” Hicks shouted at Brandis, a member of the conservative coalition that supported John Howard, who served as Australian prime minister between 1996 and 2007.
Brandis left the stage at the Museum of Contemporary Arts without responding, an attitude which Hicks described as cowardly, according to the local news agency ABC.
Hick’s lawyer Stephen Kenny said that it outraged his client that Brandis was talking about human rights because he “he was a member of the Howard government who had so completely ignored David’s human rights.”
He also said that “The Australian Government should be held to account how they allowed David Hicks to be treated.
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SYDNEY – David Hicks, the Australian who spent several years detained in Guantanamo, demanded explanations from the Australian Attorney-General, George Brandis, for being tortured during his detention, local media reported Thursday.Hicks interrupted an awards ceremony for human rights in Sydney shortly after the U.S. Senate published a report on the brutal tactics employed by the CIA to interrogate suspects after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
“Hey, my name is David Hicks. I was tortured for five-and-a-half years in Guantanamo Bay in the full knowledge of your party. What do you have to say?” Hicks shouted at Brandis, a member of the conservative coalition that supported John Howard, who served as Australian prime minister between 1996 and 2007.
Brandis left the stage at the Museum of Contemporary Arts without responding, an attitude which Hicks described as cowardly, according to the local news agency ABC.
Hick’s lawyer Stephen Kenny said that it outraged his client that Brandis was talking about human rights because he “he was a member of the Howard government who had so completely ignored David’s human rights.”
He also said that “The Australian Government should be held to account how they allowed David Hicks to be treated.
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