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Hicks Feared US Interrogators Would Shoot Him

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Guantanamo Detainee Hicks Feared US Interrogators Would Shoot Him


Agence France-Presse
Tuesday 03 April 2007

Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks feared he would be shot unless he cooperated with US interrogators in Afghanistan, according to a sworn statement presented to a British court.

In the affidavit, Hicks said he was slapped, kicked, punched and spat on after being arrested by coalition forces in the Central Asian country in 2001.

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