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SYDNEY, Australia — A former Guantanamo Bay inmate became a completely free man today for the first time in seven years when the final restrictions stemming from terrorism allegations ended.
David Hicks, 33, spent more than five years at the military detention center in Cuba before striking a plea deal that returned him home to Australia for a nine-month sentence.
Hicks was freed a year ago after completing a sentence for providing support for terrorism but was placed under a court order that required him to report to police three days a week, forced him to observe a curfew and banned him from using any telephone or Internet account not approved by police. The order expired at midnight Saturday.
