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Former Guantanamo Bay detainee and terror suspect David Hicks faced court in Adelaide on Tuesday charged with assaulting his partner. Vision courtesy: Network Ten.
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Former Guantanamo Bay detainee and terror suspect David Hicks faced court in Adelaide on Tuesday charged with assaulting his partner. Vision courtesy: Network Ten.
He is accused of assaulting his partner at Craigmore in September 2016. He did not enter a plea and his case was adjourned to February 28.
The magistrate did not allow journalists inside the court for the pre-trial conference.
David Hicks outside court in Adelaide on Tuesday. Photo: Channel Ten
"I'm here to see my dad. He works here," he told reporters as he arrived at court wearing jeans and a grey, collared shirt.
The Adelaide-born 41-year-old married human rights activist Aloysia Brooks after his release from prison but the couple has since split and the alleged assault victim is another woman.
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Mr Hicks was picked up in 2001 by US forces in Afghanistan, where he joined an al-Qaeda training camp, and detained at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba until 2006.
He pleaded guilty in 2007 to providing material support for terrorism in a deal that allowed most of his seven-year sentence to be suspended and for him to return to Australia.
The terrorism conviction was appealed in 2013 and overturned by a US military court in 2014, bringing an end to the long legal saga.
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