Fed: Everingham asks Queen to help free Hicks

AAP General News (Australia)
12-19-2006
Fed: Everingham asks Queen to help free Hicks

Journalist BARRY EVERINGHAM has asked the Queen to use her influence .. to get DAVID
HICKS out of Guantanamo Bay.

Mr EVERINGHAM says he sent a letter to Her Majesty last week .. asking her to exercise
her power as Australia's head of state.

He's told the Queen .. the Australian government's deaf to appeals for HICKS' return
.. and the prime minister's abandoned an Australian citizen to a fate surely worse than
death.

HICKS has been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay since January 2002 .. after being arrested
in Afghanistan a month earlier during the US invasion.

AAP RTV mj/gfr/tm/jmt

KEYWORD: HICKS EVERINGHAM (MELBOURNE)

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