The US Military Commission in Cuba trying Australian David Hicks is a sham, Greens Senator Bob Brown said today.

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Thursday, 26 August 2004

"That the judges include US military officers with no legal training or qualifications makes the commission a show trial process more like Stalinist Russia than democratic Australia," Senator Brown said.

"Whatever the outcome, the acceptance of this unjust military commission by Australia's Prime Minister will come back to haunt him. He will not be able to criticise shortcomings in legal process elsewhere, for example in the trial of Bali bombers in Indonesia, having endorsed this," Senator Brown said.

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