Release Hicks and Habib!

BY PIP HINMAN

SYDNEY — David Hicks, who has been held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for almost two years. His father, Terry, told 130 people attending a public meeting at the Trades Hall Auditorium on September 20 that he hasn't heard from him since March. Mandouh Habib is also imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. The men have not been charged with anything.

Speakers included Maha Habib (Mandouh's wife), Habib's solicitor Stephen Hopper, civil liberties campaigner Tim Anderson and Jeremy Styles from the NSW Council of Civil liberties.

Anderson, himself the victim of a "terrorism" frame-up, called on those concerned about this flagrant breach of human rights to join the campaign against the Australian government's compliance with the US government's treatment of detainees. Anderson warned that the ALP should not be relied on in the campaign.

The meeting was organised by the Canterbury-Bankstown Peace Group and Actively Radical TV. For more information phone Marlene Obeid on 0401 758 871 or Bashir Sawalha on 041 859 060.

From Green Left Weekly, September 24, 2003.

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