A Minister with a track record of not respecting democratically-enacted law has spat in the face of the judiciary by locking up, by his own bureaucratic decision, a man freed on bail earlier the same day by a magistrate. Zimbabwe? A Middle Eastern dictat…
CLA congratulates police for listening to the community and introducing training for all officers serving in the watchhouse. Introducing watchhouse training was they key recommendation in CLA’s submission to the ACT Watchhouse Review, run by police and t…
Photo: Amanda Alford, CLA CEO Bill Rowlings and professonal supervisor Ernst Willheim discuss progress during the internship.Photo by Kris Klugman
In five years since 11 Sept 01, Australia has spent $10.4 billion on security, and Parliament has passed 5…
John Howard says because Saddam was given a “proper trial” we should all support his subsequent execution. Does he seriously think the travesty which took place in Baghdad was a proper trial?
So if we now follow his logic, the si…
With David Hicks’ return to Australia secured, there are still 118 Australians detained in overseas jails, with the largest contingent of 16 locked up in America. CLA is mounting a campaign to highlight the situation of these ‘forgotten’ people.
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The USA should be consistent in its military sentencing, CLA says, and hand down a sentence of less than 3 1/2 years for David Hicks. That’s the time US soldier Lt William Calley spent – under house arrest, not in jail – for his part in the predemidated…
John Howard, Alexander Downer and Philip Ruddock succeeded in having David Hicks gagged until after the election. They say it is a coincidence, but if you believe that, I have a Harbour Bridge I would like to sell you.
They are now lo…
I write to applaud The Canberra Times editorial (April 2, 2007). It is a deeply thoughtful and challenging piece. We in Civil Liberties Australia are deeply disturbed by the response to terrorism that is basically lawless, and breeches fundamental human…
The article by Hugh Selby ("Outrage over Hicks a beacon for justice", March 5, p17) is an excellent exposition of Hicks’s tragic circumstance. Read with the article by Michael Otterman below it, it is also deeply disturbing.…
I have in the past been proud to be an Australian. When I met yanks and Brits overseas I felt at least equal to them (perhaps more than equal) but now Australians stand less tall in the world.The US Military Commission’s laws for Gatanomo Bay detai…
