Tag: Human Rights

The Green Party has called for Government to mount an inquiry into the privacy concerns about the oversight of public and private databases that contain information on New Zealand citizens, Green Party MP Keith Locke says.

 

I am writing, as a Green MP, to inform you that the Terrorism Suppression Amendment (TSA) Bill is currently before the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee. The Committee is calling for submissions, which are due on May 18.

KEITH LOCKE (Green): I would like to commend the Speaker for taking so seriously the exclusion of an accredited parliamentary press gallery journalist, Nick Wang, from a photo opportunity on th

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.

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.

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.

KEITH LOCKE (Green): The Green Party is disappointed that the Government has come forward with the Terrorism Suppression Amendment Bill.

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.