[ppi] [ppiindia] Laws will expose 80 Muslim suspects

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Laws will expose 80 Muslim suspects
Cameron Stewart
October 22, 2005 
UP to 80 Australian Muslims could immediately be placed under effective house 
arrest under the Government's proposed anti-terror laws.

The laws mean they could each be required to wear tracking devices, or 
prevented from working, or using the telephone or internet, or communicating 
with certain people. 

For the first time, the laws will cover the estimated 80 Australians who have 
received or provided training with a listed terrorist organisation before 2002. 

Previously, the Government has had no effective powers over these people, 
almost all of whom are Muslims, because laws prohibiting training with 
terrorist groups came into force only in July 2002 and were not retrospective. 

However, under the proposed new laws, such people can be subjected to tough 
so-called control orders if authorities still believe they pose a security 
risk. 

The provisions, which until now have escaped public scrutiny, are aimed at 
helping authorities monitor people who have trained with terror groups and are 
still deemed to pose a potential risk. 

However, they will anger critics of the laws, who will argue they can be 
misused to "heavy" anyone purely on the basis that they have had past links 
with groups that are now illegal. 

The Australian Muslim Civil Rights Advocacy Network slammed the proposed laws 
yesterday as "a backdoor way to limit the freedoms of people who can't be found 
guilty of a crime". 

The laws will apply to anyone who has trained overseas with any of the 17 
banned terror groups, including al-Qa'ida, Jemaah Islamiah, Lashkar-e-Taiba, 
Abu Sayyaf and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. 

The intent of the law is that authorities leave these people alone if it is 
considered they no longer pose a security risk. 

But if they are deemed to be a threat, the Government can impose a wide range 
of restrictions on their freedoms. 

These include requiring that a person be fingerprinted and photographed and 
that they report to specific places at specific times. They may be fitted with 
a tracking device and banned from going to certain places or speaking with 
certain people or groups. They may also be banned from working or from using 
the internet or leaving Australia. 

Authorities have long expressed frustration that they have no legal powers to 
more effectively monitor those Australians who trained with terrorist groups 
before 2002. 

In March this year, the then head of ASIO, Dennis Richardson, said the great 
majority of people in Australia who trained with terrorist groups remained free 
because "amongst other reasons, the relevant laws did not come into force until 
July 2002". 

"Probably less than 10 per cent of people in Australia who have, or have had, a 
substantive involvement with al-Qa'ida, JI and other like-minded groups will 
ever face a court of law," he said. 

"In many cases, the capacity to obtain evidence sufficient to meet proper legal 
standards is beyond reach. 

"But the community has an understandable expectation that the Government will 
lawfully protect it from the potential threat posed by those substantially 
involved with al-Qa'ida and other terrorist groups, and from those who have 
undertaken terrorist training. Equally, it is important that any action taken 
against such people - monitoring and otherwise - is within a proper legal 
framework." 



     


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