A US military appeal court has overturned the conviction of Australian David Hicks.<br /><br /> He was among the first people to be imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay in 2002 after being captured in Afghanistan. <br /><br /> In 2007 he pleaded guilty to charges related to terrorism, admitting that he had trained with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and met Osama bin Laden. <br /><br /> He was sentenced to seven years in prison but after nine months the rest of the term was suspended and he returned to Australia. <br /><br /> The US court has now decided that at the time of his arrest his activities were not a crime.<br /><br /> Hicks wrote a book about his time in Guantanamo Bay, in which he claims he was regularly tortured: <br /><br /> “Someone should be responsible for my medical expenses. I’m in a lot of trouble at the moment physically. I’m in need of an operation on my left knee, my right elbow, my back, my teeth keep getting pulled because I couldn’t brush them for five and a half years. So it’s becoming an expensive exercise to fix myself from the y
