''Dear Dad,

''If you receive this letter it is due to the goodness of somebody who I now feel I owe my life too. This letter is very important because it's the first and probably only time I will be able to tell you the truth of my situation.

''Before I start I want you to know that the negative things I am going to say about people has nothing to do with the MP's that are watching me. Some of them are marvellous people who have taken risks to help improve my day to day living. It's because of such people that I have kept my sanity and still have some strenght left.

''In the early days before I made it to Cuba I received some harsh treatment in transportation including mild beatings (about 4). One lasted for 10 hours I went to camp x-ray, camp delta and now Im in camp echo. I have allways cooperated with interrogaters. For two years they had control of my life in the camps. If you talk and just agree with what their saying they give you real food, books and other special privileges. If not they can make your life hell. Im [sic] angry these days at myself for being so weak during these last two years. But I've always been so desperate to get out and to try to live the best I can while I am here.''

Hicks describes how, the year before, in 2003, the Americans asked him to sign a form, saying that if he did he would be moved to a better place and then within months he would be sent home.

''The form was a plea guilty form. It had al Qaida written all over it. It was a very bad form. Being so desperate (and weak) I didn't care.

I just signed it,'' Hicks wrote.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-l...#ixzz1VcWVpcO8
Does a confession have any legal standing if made under duress?

Seems like in Guantanamo the MPs were doing the right thing. - So this could have been titled:
"Military Police do the right thing"