The British High Court has overturned a decision by the Home Office that disallowed a UK passport being granted to long term Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks.
Hicks' mother was a British citizen so he's eligible to apply for British citizenship.
Barring a successful appeal (to the Privy Council?), Hicks should get his passport, placing the UK government in a delicious dilemma. They have already obtained the release of other British nationals from the Guantanamo Gulag. Should they do the same for Hicks?
Hopefully, they will, ending one of the most disgraceful episodes* attributable to the current Australian government, one where the authorities turned their backs on an Australian citizen who had broken no Australian law and detained without charge for years.
*And with regards to this government, that's saying something. (Is this seditious?)
