FOREIGN Minister Alexander Downer has rejected claims Australia is denying justice to suspected terrorist David Hicks by insisting he be tried by a foreign government.
Hicks, who has been held in the Guantanamo Bay US military prison in Cuba for four-and-a-half years, faces charges including attempted murder and aiding the enemy after he was captured with Taliban forces in Afghanistan in late 2001.
The US Supreme Court this week ruled that the military commissions set up by the Bush administration to prosecute Hicks and hundreds of others held at Guantanamo Bay were illegal.
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