Appeal over ‘Australian Taleban’
The Home Office has lodged an appeal against a High Court ruling that an Australian man imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay has a right to British citizenship. David Hicks, 30, whose mother was born in Britain, was detained in Afghanistan in 2002 and has since been held by the US at Camp X-Ray in Cuba. Two weeks ago a judge decided the home secretary had no power to stop him receiving a British passport. Full Story