Australian Court Freezes Former Guantánamo Bay Prisoner’s Bank Accounts
Submitted on August 16, 2011
By Richard Phillips - WSWS
Following a brief hearing on August 3, the New South Wales Supreme Court froze all bank accounts related to proceeds from David Hicks’s book, Guantanamo: My Journey, published last October...The case...is a vindictive political attack, orchestrated by the Gillard Labor government, seeking to punish and silence Hicks, and intimidate others whose fundamental legal and democratic rights have been abused in the “war on terror.”
