Fed: Coalition MPs push for Hicks to face justice

AAP General News (Australia)
02-15-2007
Fed: Coalition MPs push for Hicks to face justice

CANBERRA, Feb 15 AAP - Pressure is growing within the federal coalition for Prime Minister
John Howard to do more to ensure Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks is brought to trial
very soon.

Liberal MP Michael Johnson has written to Mr Howard saying five years is a very long
time for someone to be imprisoned without trial.

"I've written to the prime minister to encourage him to leverage the US administration
to bring David Hicks home and to consider his trial timeframe," Mr Johnson told ABC radio
today.

"I think it is about time that this matter was extradicted."

Western Australian MP Don Randall is another coalition member pushing for Hicks' trial.

He told ABC radio that Mr Howard should use his good relationship with US President
George W Bush to ensure Hicks' trial is completed by the end of June.

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