Bad advice SHOULD be rejected.
Bruce http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/advice-over-tough-rules-for-terrorism-su spects-rejected/2007/01/18/1169095908966.html Advice over tough rules for terrorism suspects rejected THE NSW Minister for Justice, Tony Kelly, has rejected advice that the state's treatment of terrorism suspects in jail may be unlawful. Last year Peter Moss, QC, head of a committee that advises on serious offenders, told the Government that the classification of unconvicted terrorism suspects as AA prisoners might be ineffective. The classification - the state's highest - means the prisoners' mail is opened and copied, their calls are monitored, they are handcuffed, wear orange overalls and can be segregated. Mr Moss, a former judge, told an upper house inquiry he was concerned about the validity of a law that treats terrorism inmates on remand - who have been refused bail or failed to meet bail conditions - as serious offenders. Another former judge, David Levine, who has replaced Mr Moss as head of the committee, told the Herald yesterday: "The AA/Category 5 classification is a matter of importance and concern . and is still receiving continuing consideration, especially from the three judicial members of the Serious Offenders Review Council." The Council for Civil Liberties was concerned the law infringed international human rights obligations. "In international law, national security is not a legitimate ground upon which to discriminate against remand inmates," it told the inquiry. The inquiry, chaired by a Labor MP, Amanda Fazio, noted the concerns and last year recommended that the minister review the AA/5 remand classification. But Mr Kelly this week rejected the call and said remand inmates could pose as big a security risk as convicted terrorists. In a written response to the inquiry's report, Mr Kelly said: "The classification is based on risk. No evidence has been produced to suggest that a risk to national security can only arise from a convicted inmate and not from a remand inmate; or that the risk from a convicted inmate is greater than a risk from a remand inmate." Last year, during the trial of Faheem Khalid Lodhi, convicted of planning to blow up the electricity grid, a Supreme Court judge said that Lodhi's AA classification had resulted in harsh conditions. The Greens MP Lee Rhiannon said AA prisoners were the "David Hickses of Australia". [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
