LAWYER EXPRESSES GROWING CONCERN FOR AUSTRALIAN HELD AT GUANTANAMO BAY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06716944
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2018
• Case Number: F-2018-00242
• Publication Date: May 24, 2002

Approved for Release: 2018/05/01 C06716944
PREC: R 240924Z May 02
FROM: FBIS RESTON VA
UNCLAS
WARNING: TOPIC: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL, TERRORISM
SERIAL: SEP20020524000047
COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA, AFGHANISTAN, CUBA
SUBJ: Lawyer expresses growing concern for Australian held at
Guantanamo Bay
SOURCE: Melbourne Radio Australia in English 0600 GMT 24 May 02
TEXT:
[FBIS Transcribed Excerpt] Lawyer expresses growing concern for Australian held at Guantanamo Bay
Excerpt from report by Radio Australia on 24 May The lawyer for alleged Australian Taleban fighter,
David Hicks, says he is increasingly concerned about his client being denied legal representation.
Mr Hicks and Sydney man, Mamdouh Habib, have been interviewed by officers of the Australian Federal
Police and the security service, ASIO [Australian Security Intelligence Organization], at Guantanamo
Bay in Cuba. Adelaide lawyer Stephen Kenny says Mr Hicks has been told that he would get back to
Australia sooner if he revealed everything he knows.
[Kenny] That is clearly an improper thing for people to be asking when they are interviewing him in these
circumstances and we are extremely concerned about it. He has been held in a cage now for five months
and he is being interviewed in circumstances we say are quite inappropriate.[End of recording]...
[Description of Source: Melbourne Radio Australia in English -- government-funded overseas service of
the Australian Broadcasting Corporation]
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