Cops’ legal battle to keep terrorists locked up
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, the trial that is the subject of the documentary THE TRIAL: The inside story of Australia’s biggest terrorism trial.
Producer John Moore has died
With immense sadness, we advise that The Trial’s producer John Moore died peacefully Tuesday night. John’s support and guidance ensured The Trial was made. A gentle determined man who will be greatly missed. Condolences to his family and friends. X
John Moore
Should Australia’s Counter-Terrorism Laws Cost Us Our Civil Liberties?
“The ease with which our legislators strip away fundamental rights is genuinely frightening,” wrote Greg Barns and Anna Talbot for the Australian Lawyers Alliance in the Huffington Post in November 2017. A question that has only increased in relevance since.
News stories about Raad brothers
News Corp has been publishing stories about the Raad brothers, including those involved in Australia’s biggest terrorism trial in 2008. Found this video, which has converted the text from a Daily Telegraph story to audio, and matched it to pictures. If you have a News Corp account, you can find and read one of the actual articles.
Meet ‘terrorist lawyer’ Rob Stary
‘I don’t judge. I don’t prosecute. I defend’
An article about lawyer Rob Stary was recently published by Fairfax (29 April 2017).
Rob Stary’s law firm represented a number of the men tried for various terrorism offences in our documentary ‘The Trial’. The film features interviews with Rob Stary and lawyers from his firm as well as behind the scenes observational footage of their preparations during the trial.
How terrorism hysteria turns police reports into propaganda
Opinion piece by Greg Barns, published in the Mercury 1 January 2017.
Greg Barns says prison treatment radicalises terror suspects
On 7 September 2016 the Age published the following article by Greg Barns.
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.