“We will be launching legal action in the U.S. through the Centre for Constitutional Rights for a writ of habeas corpus to secure his release and more information will come out on this. The truth is coming down the road like a freight train and the Australian government should know that we are not going to back off.

“There has been a lot of rhetoric about the Taliban during this so-called war against terrorism, but it should be remembered that when the Taliban detained some Christians for distributing bibles in Afghanistan last year they had sufficient respect for the notions of law and justice to grant these people access and representation by a lawyer. It appears that the U.S. is not just severely lacking in this area of human rights, but is behaving worse than the Taliban on this point.”

By Richard Phillips
Article reprinted courtesy of the World Socialist Web Site: http://wsws.org