Guantanamo Bay: My Journey
by David Hicks
In 1999 a young man from suburban Adelaide set out on an overseas trip that would change his life forever.
Initially, he was after adventure and the experience of travelling the Silk Road.
But events would set him on a different path. He would be deemed a terrorist, one of George W Bush’s ‘worst of the worst’. He would be incarcerated in the world’s most notorious prison, Guantanamo Bay.
And in that place where, according to an interrogator in Abu Ghraib, ‘even dogs won’t live’, he was to languish for five and a half years, suffering horror, torture and abuse, while Australians were told who he was – by politicians, the media and foreign governments.
Everyone had an opinion on him.
But only he knows the truth.
And now, for the first time, David Hicks tells his story.
- Publisher: Random House Australia
- Published: 16 October 2010
- Format: Hardback 408 pages
- ISBN 13: 9781864711585
- ISBN 10: 1864711582
Priced at August 2011
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David Hicks was released from an Australian Prison in December 2007 after serving his sentence.
According to section 20 of the Proceeds of Crime Act, the proceeds from a criminals actions can be frozen whilst investigated and may be forfeited.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/poca2002160
On August 3rd 2011, the Supreme Court of Australia froze the money that David Hicks had earned from his book “Guantanamo Bay: My Journey”.
Hicks was originally captured by a Northern Alliance group in Afghanistan, in early December 2001.
Hicks was first charged on 26th August 2004 by the United States military.
On the 31st March 2007, the US Military tribunal handed a seven year jail sentence to David Hicks, and suspend all but 9 months of this.
Davis Hicks was returned to Australia on the 20th May 2007, and served the remainder of his sentence in a South Australian prison.
On his release, on 29 December 2007, he was placed under a control order which included the requirement that he report to the police three times each week. This control order expired on 21st December 2008.