I wasn't around for it, but did we do this in WWII?
Not quite the same thing, but the internment of Japanese Americans was pretty appalling; many years later it was acknowledged as a mistake and reparations paid to the survivors.
Hicks' status is rather different; he certainly has questions to answer about what he was doing in Afghanistan. But the whole process seems to have been designed to prevent him from getting anything resembling a fair trial; after five years of abuse and frequent solitary confinement, it's not even clear that his mental health is adequate for trial.
Anyway, it looks like he may end up with time served plus about a year in an Australian jail, meaning that he won't be able to talk to the media until just after the next federal election...
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Not quite the same thing, but the internment of Japanese Americans was pretty appalling; many years later it was acknowledged as a mistake and reparations paid to the survivors.
Hicks' status is rather different; he certainly has questions to answer about what he was doing in Afghanistan. But the whole process seems to have been designed to prevent him from getting anything resembling a fair trial; after five years of abuse and frequent solitary confinement, it's not even clear that his mental health is adequate for trial.
Anyway, it looks like he may end up with time served plus about a year in an Australian jail, meaning that he won't be able to talk to the media until just after the next federal election...