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David Matthew Hicks (born 7 August 1975) is an Australian who attended al-Qaeda's Al Farouq training camp in Afghanistan. Hicks traveled to Pakistan after converting to Islam to learn more about the faith, eventually leading to his time in the training camp.
Feb 19, 2015 · A SELF-PROCLAIMED ‘loudmouth’ former Guantanamo Bay prison guard says Australian David Hicks will never get back the years he spent at the infamous detention centre, and he will never forget the torture he endured.
David Nightingale Hicks (25 March 1929 – 29 March 1998) was an English interior decorator and designer, noted for using bold colours, mixing antique and modern furnishings, and contemporary art for his famous clientele.
- Training Camps Life-Changing Experience: Hicks
- Charges Against Hicks
- Torture Allegations
- Hicks Remains in Media Spotlight
In 1999, Mr Hicks shelved his Silk Road dreams and travelled to Albania and joined the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) – a militant organisation of ethnic Albanians fighting against Serbian forces in the Kosovo War. He attended two training camps over several weeks, which he described as a life-changing experience, and upon his return home tried to jo...
On June 10, 2004, Mr Hicks was formally charged with conspiracy, attempted murder and aiding the enemy. However by mid-2006 the plan to use military commissions was in crisis, with the US Supreme Court ruling the process was unconstitutional. As a result, charges against Mr Hicks were dropped. But a few months later Mr Bush signed off on a revised ...
Mr Hicks claimed to have been physically abused while in US military custody in Afghanistan and to have suffered physical and mental torture once he was moved to Guantanamo Bay. His account was supported by international torture authority Professor Darius Rejali in the Australian Story program on Mr Hicks in 2011. "Yes, I think David Hicks was tort...
Random House Australia published Mr Hicks's autobiography, Guantanamo: My Journey, in October 2010. The following year, Mr Hicks told a packed audience at the Sydney Writers' Festival he was not a monster and had not even heard of Al Qaeda until he was interrogated at the US detention facility in Cuba. He spoke about the torture he said he and othe...
Nov 11, 2015 · The UN Human Rights Committee found that Australia violated Hicks' right to be free from arbitrary detention in 2007, but rejected his other claims. The article analyzes the case and the role of the US, the aiding and assisting argument, and the duty to rescue.
Feb 17, 2018 · A vintage David Hicks hex motif in Amanda Brooks’s son’s bedroom. Decades later, the Brit’s hallmark hexagonal design infiltrated pop culture: A scaled-up version paved the hotel halls in ...
David Hicks, an Australian who was captured fighting for the Taliban, being led down the ramp of the cargo plane on the first day of prison operations at Guantanamo Bay. Picture: The New York Times.
