Court orders made in August last year to freeze the proceeds of 30,000 sales of the book, estimated to be worth about $10,000 to Mr Hicks, were vacated.

"The director considered that advice and other advice and yesterday decided that he should not continue with these proceedings," he said.

Mr Hicks was in court for the decision. Outside the court, the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner said he was unfairly pursued by the Australian government.

"In a way I feel that this has cleared my name and I hope now that the Australian government acknowledges that Guantanamo Bay and everything connected with it is illegal.

"I've always felt that it's always been political, whether back in the days of Guantanamo Bay and now I've been out for four years and we're still going and there's been some closure to that today.

"If there was actually any evidence, if any crime had been committed we would have been able to proceed at court but they've pulled the pin, they weren't prepared to fight us on that."

In a statement released today, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions said proceedings were launched in July last year on the understanding that there was enough evidence to commence proceedings against Mr Hicks pursuant to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Commonwealth).



"The evidence available to my Office was sufficient to commence those proceedings on the basis that Mr Hicks stood to benefit financially from the commercial exploitation of his notoriety resulting from the commission of a foreign indictable offence," the statement said.



Mr Hicks's assets were frozen to prevent their dissipation should the court ultimately rule they were proceeds of crime, it said.