AAP General News (Australia)
04-07-2006
Fed: Hicks trial process biased, politically influenced: Mori
DAVID HICKS' Marine Corps defence lawyer says his client faces a biased trial and political
pressure for a prosecution .. including from within Australia.
Major MICHAEL MORI has been the lawyer for the 30-year-old Australian terrorist suspect
in Guantanamo Bay for the past four years.
He is also a leading critic of the legal processes used to try those held in the US
facility on Cuba.
Last night he gave the University of Melbourne Law School's 2006 Alumni Lecture ..
saying the process lacks independent checks and balances .. and is open to political influence.
HICKS has been in US custody since his capture in December 2001 in Afghanistan where
it's alleged he fought in support of the Taliban.
AAP RTV dr/wz/psm/
KEYWORD: HICKS (MELBOURNE)
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