Alliance Against Political Prosecutions
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Speakers:
MP Dr Monique Ryan (TBC),
Bernard Collaery, lawyer and former ACT Attorney-General, prosecuted for standing up for Timor-Leste,
Tosca Lloyd, Media & Democracy Campaigns Director from GetUp,
Greens Senator David Shoebridge; and
Kieran Pender , senior lawyer, Human Rights Law Centre.
Former military lawyer, Major McBride is being prosecuted for disclosing classified documents exposing alleged war crimes in Afghanistan to the ABC resulting in the 2017 ABC TV program, The Afghan Files.
The goverment’s Brereton Report has since validated his revelations. He was charged in 2018. It seems the government wants to keep people from speaking out!
The federal government's proposed anti-corruption watchdog would be subject to one of the country's most restrictive public hearing tests, transparency experts warn.
It comes as a parliamentary committee begins its hearings on Tuesday into the National Anti-Corruption Commission bill with department and expert witnesses appearing across three full days until Thursday.
The Australian government needs to lead a "breakout solution" to resolve the "endless circuitry" oppressing "foremost international prisoner of conscience" Julian Assange, prominent lawyer Bernard Collaery has said.
Dear Prime Minister
As we have previously conveyed to you, the Alliance Against Political Prosecutions (AAPP) is extremely concerned about Julian Assange’s incarceration in Belmarsh Prison and the charges against him by the US, as well as the extradition proceedings.