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Rush is on to cover cracks with 'guilty' plea
Date: March 9 2007
Is the United States performing the unsightly trick of talking out of both sides of its mouth at once? It looks like it. On Wednesday the US ambassador in Canberra, Robert McCallum, said that in relation to the David Hicks case, "Australians are understandably angry and distraught by the delay". This, he added, was a sentiment he shared.

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Hicks case pulled in all directions
Date: March 9 2007

DAVID HICKS has become mired in a legal tug-of-war, with the US ordering him to stand trial in 11 days at the same time as the Federal Court has rejected the Australian Government's attempt to block a case to have him brought home.

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I am delighted this Human Rights Education Conference is being held, it is timely, it is important. The more understanding there can be about basic human rights for men, women and children, for people of all religions, for minorities, for the disadvantaged, for all people, the better it will be and the sooner our society will return to one of decency and charity.

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This afternoon, all Senators will be forced to vote on whether Government legal advice on the new US Military Commissions should be made public. "If the Government has nothing to hide, this should be an easy motion for them," Democrats' Attorney-Generals Spokesperson Senator Natasha Stott Despoja said.

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Prime Minister John Howard is facing further pressure from within the Coalition over the amount of time it is taking for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks to be brought to trial. Federal Liberal MP from Queensland, Michael Johnson, is the latest Coalition MP to raise the matter of Hicks with Mr Howard.

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The European Parliament has criticised its own member-states for turning a blind eye to the American practice of extraordinary rendition. Extraordinary rendition refers to the transporting of terrorist suspects to places beyond the reach of American human rights laws.

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NEW YORK - New Details Emerge of "Baptizing" of Detainees and Koran Desecration; ACLU Questions FBI Failure to Investigate Detainee Abuse. 

The American Civil Liberties Union today released more than 200 pages of documents obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation detailing 26 eyewitness accounts by agents of detainee abuse, 17 of which the Bureau apparently chose not to investigate further.

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