Lawyers for the Commonwealth are seeking to have dismissed legal action demanding the release of Guantanamo Bay detainee, David Hicks. Mr Hicks's lawyers have launched legal action in the Federal Court in Sydney against the Commonwealth. They are arguing it has a duty to protect Mr Hicks as an Australian citizen overseas and should seek his release and repatriation.Mr Hicks's military lawyer Major Michael Mori says he visited him last week. "He's starting his sixth year of confinement in Guantanamo, I think everyone can understand that's been a very difficult situation locked in a box," he said.
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The Commonwealth says the proceedings should be dismissed because the case has no prospect of success. In court today a date was set in February to hear the Commonwealth's attempt to have the case struck out.