Pada awal pekan ini, direktur baru jaksa tentara Australia, Brigadir Lyn McDade, menyatakan perlakuan atas Hicks sangat buruk dan Jaksa Agung Philip Ruddock menyebut pernyataan itu mencerminkan sikap pemerintah.
Earlier in the week, the new Australian director of military prosecutions, Brigadier Lyn McDade, said the treatment of Hicks was abominable, and Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said those remarks reflected the government's position.