Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib has written a book entitled My Story: The Tale of a Terrorist Who Wasn’t (Scribe Publications $32.95).
The book, reviewed in the Weekend Australian 25/26 Oct 08 by Natalie O`Brien, tells of Habib`s ordeal. After being…
An independent review of terrorism legislation passed since 9/11 should compare the laws with agreed principles of what Australians’ civil liberties, rights and responsibilities should be. That’s what CLA has told a Senate Inquiry into a proposed private…
Cartoon by Nicholson
Bidding to heighten the fear of terrorism to boost his agency’s status, ASIO’s Director-General has used Weapons of Mass Destruction…just as his boss, the Attorney-General, is downplaying terrorism and signalling a radical chang…
Mohammad Jawad was a child in December 2002 when rendered into Guantanamo Bay for throwing a grenade at American soldiers in Afghanistan. His ‘signed’ – with a thumbprint, because he doesn’t read or write – written confession is in Farsi, a language he d…
The Hamdan case represents US ‘justice’ at a very low ebb. A concocted commission has ostensibly ‘judged’ a non-existent crime that was also both out of time and out of place. Dual qualified American-Australian lawyer Robert Briggs questions why the inte…
What are your rights – and the rights of ASIO and police – under Australia’s draconian anti-terror laws? This excellent publication, produced by the Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network, was released in its 3rd edition in July 2008. It explain…
Your report, Haneef documents to remain secret (The Age, 29/7) reveals that the role of the Australian Federal Police – providing questionable ‘evidence’ that resulted in Dr Haneef being arrested and detained for 12 days – will never be examined in an o…
An Algerian avionics expert, detained, on the USA-Canada border, six days before 11 Sept 2001: the innocent Benamar Benatta’s five-year saga of torture and despair nears closure as the Canadian Government prepares to negotiate compensation for the man, b…
A full bench of Federal Court has ruled that ASIO must tell deported peace activist Scott Parkin why they gave him an adverse security assessment. In 2005, the Australian Government cancelled Parkin’s visa and escorted him back to the USA. Now he can fin…
Where did Paul Daley dredge up his fantasies (“Accountability takes no prisoners”, The Sunday Canberra Times, June 29, p27) about Australia being threatened by stateless armies of terrorists, and stateless hoons with speedboats and dirty bombs? This kin…