The news is that David Hicks’ seven year sentence can be suspended to nine months incarceration in Australia. Good news for the Howard government that he will be locked up up until after the expected election in December, and that he is specifically forbidden to speak to the press until he is released. It’s good to have great and powerful friends in the US.
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Filed under: Australian values, Politics
Oh the hilarity. Sentencing according to the electoral needs of a foreign government, if that didn’t demonstrate the “kangaroo” nature of this “tribunal” then nothing will.
Naturally we should demand Hicks be released immediately upon his return to Australia.