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Jan 15, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Peter Greste
I first encountered Alaa Abd el-Fattah 11 years ago, as a disembodied whisper of reassurance from outside the bars of my grubby prison cell in Cairo. I had just been tossed in the box by Egypt’s El Mukhabarat– the malevolent General Intelligence Service responsible for internal security – and I was facing an indeterminate run in solitary confinement after being arrested on bogus terrorism charges for my work as a journalist. Alaa knew the drill.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
theaustraliatoday.com.au | Peter Greste
By Peter GresteEarlier this year, the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor (INSLM), Jake Blight, compared the sheer volume of Australia’s secrecy laws to works of literature. “You’d be looking at about 3,000-plus pages. That’s about the same as the complete works of William Shakespeare, War and Peace, and the three volumes of the Lord of the Rings – added together,” he told the ABC. Of course, secrecy laws are necessary in an increasingly dangerous world.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | Peter Greste
By Peter Greste, Professor of Journalism and Communications, Macquarie University
Earlier this year, the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor (INSLM), Jake Blight, compared the sheer volume of Australia’s secrecy laws to works of literature. “You’d be looking at about 3,000-plus pages.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Peter Greste
Earlier this year, the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor (INSLM), Jake Blight, compared the sheer volume of Australia’s secrecy laws to works of literature. “You’d be looking at about 3,000-plus pages. That’s about the same as the complete works of William Shakespeare, War and Peace, and the three volumes of the Lord of the Rings – added together,” he told the ABC. Of course, secrecy laws are necessary in an increasingly dangerous world.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
thebulletin.net.au | Peter Greste
Earlier this year, the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor (INSLM), Jake Blight, compared[1] the sheer volume of Australia’s secrecy laws to works of literature. “You’d be looking at about 3,000-plus pages. That’s about the same as the complete works of William Shakespeare, War and Peace, and the three volumes of the Lord of the Rings – added together,” he told the ABC. Of course, secrecy laws are necessary in an increasingly dangerous world.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst |Peter Greste
A Turkish-Egyptian dual citizen who is facing a life sentence in Egypt for his political activity was detained upon arrival in Morocco and is set to be deported. Dr Abdelbaset Abdallah Mohamed al-Imam, 62, was detained and interrogated by Moroccan security officials after landing in Casablanca airport on 3 November, his family told Middle East Eye. After receiving an initial message from him which read "pray for me", Imam's family lost contact with him for 14 hours.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst |Peter Greste
Five members of the same family have been forcibly disappeared for six months by Egyptian security forces, rights groups say. According to the Egyptian Network for Human Rights (ENHR) and the Stop Enforced Disappearances campaign, Nasser Abdel Moneim Abdel Naseem and four of his family members, including his wife and daughter, have been missing since being arbitrarily detained in Cairo and Alexandria in May. The groups have demanded that the authorities reveal their whereabouts.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst |Peter Greste
Egyptian security forces have detained prominent economist and journalist Abdel Khaleq Farouk, the Egyptian Network for Human Rights said. Farouk, 67, was arrested on Sunday evening and taken to an unknown location. According to a statement by his wife, the economist was denied his medication, and his family were not informed of the reasons for his arrest. His electronic devices and other personal belongings were also confiscated by the authorities.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Peter Greste
Mark Smith said he had been the lead author of the central assessment governing the legality of UK arms sales to the Middle East British Foreign Secretary David Lammy (AFP) 18 August 2024 22:37 BST ago The British civil servant who resigned over concerns that the government is complicit in Israeli war crimes in Gaza has said he was formerly the lead author of the central assessment governing the legality of UK arms sales in the Foreign Office's Middle East and North Africa Directorate.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
middleeasteye.net | Imran Mulla |Peter Greste
A coalition of 15 student organisations across the UK has launched a new network aimed at challenging the complicity of universities in Israel's war on Gaza. The Student Federation for a Liberated Palestine (SFLP), launched on Friday, consists of pro-Palestinian societies and groups from universities nationwide, many of which organised student encampments in April and May.
