Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson MP Keith Locke today supported the call by Law Commission president Sir Geoffrey Palmer to scrap New Zealand laws on sedition.
KEITH LOCKE (Green): The Green Party would like to speak on this motion, because I think that the Supplementary Order Paper it deals with — Supplementary Order Paper 106 — brings
Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke welcomed the release on bail of Thomas Yadegary, an Iranian who has been held for nearly two and half years without charge in Mt Eden jail, since being arrested on 1 November 2004.
Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Keith Locke has called on the Government to announce a clear timetable for how it plans to meet the UN target for development aid of .7 percent of GNI by 2015.
Madam SPEAKER: I have received letters from Keith Locke and Ron Mark seeking to debate under Standing Order 380 the release of the commission of inquiry report into police conduct.
Green Party Police Spokesperson Keith Locke is asking the Police to admit responsibility for wrongly stopping an accredited parliamentary press gallery journalist from doing his job at a media event in the Beehive.
Green Party MP Keith Locke is concerned that Police appear to have loosened the criteria for taser use, so that it is now being used simply to make an arrest easier.
The Terrorism Suppression Amendment Bill, introduced into Parliament today, is a further attack on our civil liberties, Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke says.