How ASIO is eroding the rule of law
Anne Gooley
August 25, 2007
IF YOU have been following the coverage of the detention of Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef and feeling a sense of deja vu, you are not alone.
Many aspects of Haneef's case bear strong similarities with those of my clients, deported United States peace activist Scott Parkin and Iraqi refugees Mohammed Sagar and Mohammad Faisal. The cases also provide similar illustrations of the Australian Government's willingness to undermine civil rights in the name of national security and to use the migration system with political intent.
Sagar, Faisal and Parkin were all given adverse security assessments by ASIO, leading to the deportation of Parkin from Australia in 2005, and the extended forced detention on the island of Nauru of Mohammed Sagar and Mohammad Faisal from 2001.
To red the full article from The Age, click on:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/how-asio-is-eroding-the-rule-of-law/2007/08/24/1187462515474.html
August 25, 2007
IF YOU have been following the coverage of the detention of Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef and feeling a sense of deja vu, you are not alone.
Many aspects of Haneef's case bear strong similarities with those of my clients, deported United States peace activist Scott Parkin and Iraqi refugees Mohammed Sagar and Mohammad Faisal. The cases also provide similar illustrations of the Australian Government's willingness to undermine civil rights in the name of national security and to use the migration system with political intent.
Sagar, Faisal and Parkin were all given adverse security assessments by ASIO, leading to the deportation of Parkin from Australia in 2005, and the extended forced detention on the island of Nauru of Mohammed Sagar and Mohammad Faisal from 2001.
To red the full article from The Age, click on:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/how-asio-is-eroding-the-rule-of-law/2007/08/24/1187462515474.html
posted by Pax Christi @ Saturday, August 25, 2007
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