Australian Guantanamo prisoner could serve sentence at home
AFP, May, 2006
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SYDNEY (AFP) — Australia's lone Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks could be transferred home to serve out any sentence handed down by a US military commission under a new agreement, senior ministers said.
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer and Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said Australia and the United States had signed an agreement in Washington on Tuesday on the possible transfer of prisoners sentenced by a US military commission.
"Transfers would need the approval of the Australian and United States governments and the transferee and would only be possible after the judgment of the military commission is final," Downer and Ruddock said in a joint statement.
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"The enforcement of the sentence will be governed by Australian law but must maintain the legal nature and duration of the original sentence."
Hicks, 30, has been at the US military facility of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba since January 2002 after he was ...
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