Britain denies Hicks citizenship

AUSTRALIAN Guantanamo inmate David Hicks' application for British citizenship has been denied by the British Home Office, but the ruling will be challenged in court. A lawyer for Hicks today confirmed the Home Office ruling on the application. The application was denied on the basis that Hicks had allegedly performed "an act prejudicial to the interests of the United Kingdom in attending training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan", the lawyer's office said.

An application for judicial review of the citizenship bid has already been lodged and is set down to be heard next Wednesday. The 30-year-old's application was based on the British citizenship of his mother, who was born and lived as a child in England.

The British government had acted to remove all nine of its citizens from US military custody held at its Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, and the Hicks family had hoped the government would do the same if Hicks became British. Hicks has been held at Guantanamo since January 2002 after he was picked up by US forces while allegedly fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan,


Hicks was today due to be the first of nine Guantanamo inmates to face military commission trial at the heavily fortified prison. But US District Court judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly this week granted a stay in the trial until at least mid-2006 while the US Supreme Court considers a challenge to the legitimacy of military commission hearing process.

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in Afghanistan and Pakistan, I can't say that I blame the Brits for wanting to keep him out.

war criminals run the British government.