MIAMI (AP) An Australian who trained at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan and ended up a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay is appealing his terrorism conviction.
David Hicks pleaded guilty in March 2007 to providing material support for terrorism. It was a plea deal that got him out of Guantanamo and back to Australia. Most of his seven-year sentence was suspended and he was freed within months.
Lawyers for the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights filed an appeal Tuesday with a military review court. They point to an October 2012 appeal's court ruling in another case that found that the terrorism charge was not a recognized war crime that could be prosecuted by military commission.
A Pentagon spokesman says Hicks agreed not to appeal as part of his plea deal.
