FORMER Australian Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib has joined hundreds of protesters on the lawns of Canberra's Parliament House, calling for the return of Australian terrorist suspect David Hicks.
The 31-year-old Adelaide-born father of two who has been detained by the US at Guantanamo Bay since shortly after he was captured with Taliban forces in Afghanistan in December, 2001.
US prosecutors have recommended he be charged with providing material support for terrorism and attempted murder, but the charges won't be formally laid until they have been approved by US military judge Susan Crawford.
Mr Habib, who is running as an independent for a seat in the NSW election, told the crowd Hicks was being tortured and brainwashed in the US camp.
“Guantanamo Bay is an experiment ... and what they experiment in is brainwashing,” Mr Habib said.
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