Tag: Justice

Green MP Keith Locke wants the Government to speak out against the latest crackdown on pro-democracy opposition in Burma.

Green MP Keith Locke said he was disappointed with Auckland police for publicly linking Afghani refugees to a supposed terrorism plot, without laying any charges against them.

The Green Party has called on the new Minister of Immigration, Wyatt Creech, to show compassion to the 16 Indian and Pakistani asylum seekers currently on hunger strike in Mt Eden prison.

The Green Party has written to Immigration Minister Tuariki Delamere asking him to release 17 asylum seekers from Mt Eden Prison.

14.12.2000 KEITH LOCKE* says serious privacy issues arise from proposed laws that would allow police to intercept e-mails. Legislation allowing police to intercept e-mails and hack into computers is before a parliamentary select committee.

On the third anniversary of the 2007 “Anti-Terrorism Raids, Keith Locke – Green MP is coming to Dunedin to deliver a speech on the Search and Surveillance Bill legislation which is currently being considered by the Justice and Electoral Select Committee. This Bill is concerning because it extends state search and surveillance powers beyond Police and intelligence age ncies to an array of other state agencies.

Join us as we are march down to the National Party HQ and on to the Wellington Police Station.

The treatment of Algerian refugee Ahmed Zaoui is a blot on the Government's record. He remains in solitary confinement in Paremoremo prison 10 months after he arrived here seeking asylum.

In Fahrenheit 9/11 Michael Moore shows how George W Bush's "War on Terror" is also a war on the civil liberties of Americans.But it's not just "over there" that long-cherished freedoms are being taken away.