David Hicks was captured in Afghanistan after the US invasion and has been in Gitmo since early 2002 and has been awaiting trial by military commission. He recently was allowed to speak to his family (and a lawyer, who told the Guardian that Hicks hadn't been told of the Hamdan ruling, ruling the military commissions trying Gitmo detainees illegal) by phone:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1814907,00.html?gusrc=rssHe told his family that the guards at the prison had become "very tough" since three inmates committed suicide last month, and said he thought other inmates were being punished for the deaths.
Mr McLeod said Mr Hicks was not suicidal, but he could understand why the three dtainees had killed themselves.
"We're being pushed, pushed, pushed all the time - don't be surprised if things happen," Mr McLeod quoted Mr Hicks as saying in an apparent warning that there could be more suicide attempts.
Mr Hicks said conditions had worsened significantly over the past few months, and that he was being kept in solitary confinement inside a concrete cell for up to 24 hours a day.
He said all furniture had been removed from his cell and that he had been forced to sleep on the floor until guards gave him a thin mattress around two weeks ago.
"He has to lie on the floor, the air conditioning is kept on full, he has very few clothes, and he shivers lying on the floor," Mr McLeod said.
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