Thursday 17 February 2011

EXCLUSIVE: An Interview With Former Guantanamo Detainee David Hicks

"David Hicks was one of the first 'war on terror' detainees to be sent to Guantanamo the day the prison facility opened on January 11, 2002. He is one of the small group of detainees who challenged the President George W. Bush's November 13, 2001 executive order authorizing indefinite detention, which led to a landmark 2004 Supreme Court case, Rasul v. Bush, in which the High-Court said detainees have the right to habeas corpus. Hicks spent five-and-a-half years at Guantanamo and was tortured. Last October, he published a memoir, 'Guantanamo: My Journey.' This is his first interview since his release from Guantanamo in 2007."

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