Skip Nav | Home | Mobile | Editorial Guidelines | Mission Statement | About Us | Contact | Help | Security | Support Us

World

Qasim's possible release a 'worrying precedent': Labor

Propaganda Monster | 21.06.2005 00:27 | Health | Migration | Repression | London | World

Too right he's been there too long and now he has a mental problem. I guess that's one way to get to the truth aye laurie?

Peter Qasim ... accused
Peter Qasim ... accused


Peter Qasim ... accused
of being uncooperative.

(File photo) (Rooters)

AUSTRALIA: The Federal__ opposition's? spokesman on Imagination, laurie ferguson, (another well paid loser) says the proposed release of long-term detainee Peter Qasim could set a worrying precedent.

Too right he's been there too long and now he has a mental problem. I guess that's one way to get to the truth aye laurie?

Mr Qasim is among 50 people invited to apply for a bridging visa by Imagination Minister amanda vanstone.

john hoWARd says Sin-ator vanstone's decision is a sensible way of dealing with the situation.

That was after they gave him a mental problem!

hoWARd: "I have full confidence in her using this discretion," he said.

But Labor's Imagination spokesman, laurie ferguson, says he is not convinced the case sets the right example.

"I would think that up to recently there are issues as to his cooperation," he said.

ferguson says it is unpalatable to keep anyone in detention for such a long time.

But he believes until recently Mr Qasim has not been cooperative with authorities.

"I think it would be a very worrying precedent for people in Australia where we might establish a system where people aren't cooperative, they don't really clarify who they are, where they come from, what their political and religious or political and ethnic backgrounds are," he said.

"Because of lack of cooperation we define them as stateless like genuine stateless people. I do not think this is an easy issue."

But I wonder how he'd be if he had a 'mental illness' and tried to think about the issue of being stateless?

Related:

Psychiatrists dismiss Vanstone's call to limit role

"It would be negligent of a psychiatrist not to speak out against things that drive people crazy."

More:  http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/92748.php

The Peter Qasim Appeal

Kashmiri refugee Peter Qasim has been imprisoned in Australia for 6 years, 9 months and 12 days, a total of 2,477 days. Many other refugees have been imprisoned for more than 4 years

More:  http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/asylum/Qasim/Qasim.html



Propaganda Monster
- e-mail: gkable@hotmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/publik15/news1

Publish

Publish your news

Do you need help with publishing?

/regional publish include --> /regional search include -->

World Topics

Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

Server Appeal Radio Page Video Page Indymedia Cinema Offline Newsheet

secure Encrypted Page

You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.

If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

IMCs


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech