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An Analysis of the US Military Commissions: An Unjust System

This an Expert Panel Report.  The Expert Panel consists of Simon Morrison, National President of the Australian Lawyers Alliance, Tom Percy QC and Julian Burnside QC.

The Australian Lawyers Alliance aims to protect and promote justice freedom and the rights of the individual.  We believe that all people are entitled to human and democratic rights as enshrined in the Geneva Conventions.

David Hicks is currently being processed through a military commissions system that is so unjust that the governments of the United States and United Kingdom will not subject their own citizens to it.  However, the Australian government has allowed David Hicks to remain imprisoned for over five years, without valid charge, only now to be processed in an unfair and unreasonable system.

The Australian Lawyers Alliance believes that David Hicks cannot receive justice in the flawed system to which he is being subjected.  No matter what happens, in this system, injustice will prevail. The Australian Lawyers Alliance believes that Hicks must be brought home immediately.

Submissions

March 2007     An Analysis of the US Military Commissions: An Unjust System (PDF file size 128.81 KB)