Category Archives: News
Cops’ legal battle to keep terrorists locked up
The Australian’s national security editor writes about efforts to keep convicted terrorists like Abdul Nacer Benbrika in jail.
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Majed Raad is believed to be held in Syria
The Australian newspaper reports that Melbourne man Majed Raad is one of a number of Islamic State fighters being held in Syria. Mr Raad was tried and acquitted as part of the 2008 terrorism trial. Continue reading
Producer John Moore has died
With immense sadness, we advise that The Trial’s producer John Moore has died. A gentle determined man who will be greatly missed. Continue reading
Should Australia’s Counter-Terrorism Laws Cost Us Our Civil Liberties?
Greg Barns and Anna Talbot of the Australian Lawyers Alliance examine this issue in the Huffington Post in 2017, a question that has only increased in relevance since. Continue reading
News stories about Raad brothers
News Corp published several articles about the Raad brothers in August 2018 Continue reading
Meet ‘terrorist lawyer’ Rob Stary
‘I don’t judge. I don’t prosecute. I defend’.
Rob Stary is the subject of a feature recently published by Fairfax. Rob Stary’s law firm represented a number of the men tried for terrorism offences in ‘The Trial’.
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How terrorism hysteria turns police reports into propaganda
Opinion piece by Greg Barns, published in the Mercury 1 January 2017. Continue reading
Greg Barns says prison treatment radicalises terror suspects
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IS reports Ezzit Raad killed in Syria
Islamic State says that Ezzit Raad was killed in Syria while fighting for their cause. Raad was convicted of terrorism offences in 2008. He was barrister Greg Barn’s client. Continue reading