GUANTANAMO, Cuba, May 4 (UPI) -- For six weeks, Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has been in solitary confinement for 22 hours a day.
Hicks' lawyer, Maj. Michael Mori, told reporters that Hicks was moved from his Camp Delta cell to the maximum-security Camp 5 a day after complaining to an Australian consular official about being harassed by U.S. prison guards.
The Sydney Morning Herald on May 3 quoted Mori as saying: "David sees this as punishment for speaking about all his complaints. Nothing has changed to justify going back to this inhumane living condition."
Before being banished to solitary, Hicks had been living in a cell with access to sunlight and open air, with a table, a chair and a clock, which were provided to Hicks after Australian consular officials lobbied his U.S. jailers.
According to Mori, Hicks is now allowed only two hours' recreation a day in a 20-foot by 20-foot steel cage.
