BY SARAH STEPHEN
Guards daily tell detained asylum seekers to return to their countries and try to screen phone calls to prevent detainees speaking to the media. Asylum seekers who had stitches forcibly removed from their lips reinserted them. An
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US relatives of victims of the September 11 terrorist strikes delivered compensation claims to US officials in Kabul on January 22 on behalf of Afghan civilians who have lost family members or homes in Washington's bombing of Afghanistan.
Agence
BY ALLEN JENNINGS
Colombia reached the brink of all-out war as the government threatened to end three-year-old peace negotiations with the left-wing guerilla organisation, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Buoyed by increased US
BY NORM DIXON
The United States has offered to spread its "war on terrorism" to Nepal. A US official told Associated Press on January 19 that during a visit to the Himalayan kingdom US Secretary of State Colin Powell had offered increased US
BY MONICA MOOREHEAD
A legal appeal on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther activist who was framed for murder, was filed for the third time with the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court on January 9.
The appeal asks that the Supreme
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Two-hundred and fifty people rallied in the Queen Street mall on January 25 to support the rights of refugees protesting inside Woomera detention centre.
The rally, organised by the Brisbane Refugee Action Collective,
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — The Northern Territory's draconian Public Order and Anti-Social Conduct Act may soon be repealed by the NT Labor government. Pippa Rudd, spokesperson for NT Attorney-General Peter Toyne, told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly on
Saudi Time Bomb?WGBH FrontlineSBSTuesday, February 5, 8.30pm
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This program opens with US President George Bush's famous September 20 warning that justified Washington's war on Afghanistan: "Either you are with us or you are
BY PETER BOYLE
When the US government declared an open-ended "war on terrorism" in retaliation for the September 11 terror attacks in New York and Washington, world politics shifted into a new and more dangerous phase. US President George Bush
BY ALISON DELLIT
The attention David Hicks has received from the Australian government differs markedly from that enjoyed by Kerry and Kay Danes, following their December 2000 arrest for alleged embezzlement in Laos.
Kerry Danes, an SAS officer
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
Lost amid the Howard government's refugee bashing re-election hype was the news of its success in trying to crush another one of its targets, the union movement.
In November the long-running Federal Court case brought against
The Coalition government is facing a serious political crisis. The desperate and heroic actions of more than 300 hunger strikers at Woomera and Maribyrnong detention centres have again focused the spotlight on the inhumanity and illegality of the
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