David Hicks is an Australian who spent five and a half years in the jails of Guantanamo.
Sentenced in 2007 to providing material support to al Qaeda, he comes to see that conviction overturned by the Court of Appeals US military courts.
A page is turning for the former inmate who says relieved. Since his return, he wrote a book about his years in prison and intends to ask the Australian government, if not an apology, financial aid ...
"Someone should take care of my medical expenses. I need an operation on his left knee, my right elbow, my back, my teeth keep falling because I could not brush it for 5 years and a half, it becomes a very expensive exercise to repair me the years of torture. "
Hicks was arrested in 2001 in Afghanistan, after training in a camp of Al Qaeda and met Osama bin Laden. He was sent in early 2002 at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, the eastern tip of Cuba, and pleaded guilty five years later.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the Australian government had done the right thing in the Hicks case:
"Whatever the legal aspects, and it was mainly the work of a US court operating under US law, David Hicks was not good intentions, as he himself acknowledged. And I do not intend to apologize for the actions that Australian governments undertake to protect our country. Not now, not ever. "
Conviction of David Hicks in March 2007 was the first of eight in total almost 800 prisoners in Guantanamo went through more than 13 years.
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