Australia AG insists Hicks military trial will not hear evidence coerced by torture

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Australia AG insists Hicks military trial will not hear evidence coerced by torture
[JURIST] The US military commission expected to try Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks will not allow evidence coerced through torture, Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock told... [more].

And just how will anyone in the room know that evidence led by the prosecution was not coerced? (I think we can presume that no protest raised by David at the commission's hearing will carry any weight.)

More importantly, how can we trust this assertion by our AG?

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I think it's pretty safe to say that we can't trust any of these assertions. There is no independant oversite of Guantanamo (by the Red Cross, for example). The government in charge has partially renounced it's commitment to the Geneva conventions. Allegations of torture by the prisoners are dismissed without investigation. Our own government is trying to redefine "torture" to exclude the forms of torture in use by the US government.

Rule of law? We don't need no stiiinking rule of law!