Tag: Human Rights

Green MP Keith Locke is urging the government to resist Algerian pressure to deport Ahmed Zaoui when ambassador Soufiane Mimouni visits early next month.

Green MP Keith Locke is asking the Labour government to stop dodging the hard moral question and to state publicly that it will accept some of the asylum-seekers interned on Nauru.

Green MP Keith Locke is demanding the Government makes some effort to intervene in the tragedy unfolding on Nauru.

Green MP Keith Locke wants New Zealand to help break the impasse over hunger-striking Afghan asylum seekers on Nauru.

Green MP Keith Locke wants New Zealand to give two presents to asylum seekers this Christmas.

Will the Government be holding an inquiry into the New Zealand SIS's handling of the Zaoui case in light of the loss of part of a videotape interview and the subsequent discovery of an audiotape of the interview with Mr Zaoui; if not, why not?

The Ahmed Zaoui case is becoming a critical test of our justice system and our democracy. The security risk certificate procedure applied against Mr Zaoui is a "trust us" procedure.

Does the Prime Minister have confidence in the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security; if so, why?

Does she agree, in light of the Ahmed Zaoui case, that the "framework for issuing security risk certificates… has been shown to have serious flaws"; if not, why not?