There was another demonstration by doctors, medical students and colleagues in Sydney at the weekend. This follows an open letter from current and former migration centre workers, challenging the department to prosecute them under the new Act for speaking out.
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The Border Force Act is the sort of legislation we have come to expect from a government devoid of the imagination required to secure our borders without the systematic persecution of asylum seekers. The concerning aspect of the law, which brings Australia into line with the approach adopted by totalitarian regimes elsewhere, are the secrecy provisions.
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Limited exceptions apply, such as disclosure required by a court or to another government official, if otherwise officially approved. This code of silence is complemented by the fact that offshore and onshore detention centres are out-of-bounds for reporters.
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There has been contention as to whether disclosure of the condition of detainees and their treatment would be protected by the Public Interest Disclosure Act, otherwise known as the whistleblower protection law. Lawyer George Newhouse has pointed out the limited protections available under the Public Interest Disclosure Act and how they are unlikely to satisfactorily interact with the Border Force Act.
Alternatively, to put it beyond doubt, the Border Force Act could list a wider range of conduct that would be exempted from the cone of silence.
President Obama ratifies Bush again: Many believe the techniques, which have been condemned by Amnesty International , are being applied to Manning in order to get him to reveal information that would help the administration to prosecute WikiLeaks head and founder, Julian Assange. For this bit of truth telling, Crowley was forced to resign last week Ellsberg, In a complete perversion of any notion of justice, those being held at Guantanamo and other locations will continue to be considered guilty until proven innocent.
Among the first to be tried is Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, accused of being involved in U. Cole bombing, who was tortured using a variety of techniques, including waterboarding, i.
If witnesses to Reza Barati's death are being intimidated, that's a perversion of justice
The administration is seeking the death penalty. The admission of coerced testimony will be an issue. He was naked, hooded, shackled, and deprived of sleep. His torturers hung him from the ceiling by his arms, while they were tied behind his back.
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And if these medieval torments were not enough to render a subsequent capital trial problematic, his torturers also revved a power drill next to his naked, hooded body. And racked a handgun near his head. Thus, despite all protestations to the contrary, and even including the new review by supposedly independent panels of the status of these prisoners and the granting to them of some access to legal counsel, the continued torture and holding of prisoners indefinitely at Guantanamo and other locations indefinitely and their trial in kangaroo courts is a clear violation of both the Geneva Conventions and the UN Convention Against Torture.
In this latest executive order, the Obama Administration has thus embraced the most egregious of human rights violations of his predecessor, President George W.
Bush, in con travention of both domestic and international law, including the US Constitution. Thus, for human rights and anti-torture activists, our work is cut out for us.