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APEC protesters: important legal advice

Saturday, 8 September 2007 in Current affairs, Law by Enoch Lau | No comments

If you’re planning to protest while the APEC legislation still stands, take note of the advice from Human Rights Monitors (I got this as a handout at the SULS APEC talk).

Some highlights:

  • There is no legal obligation to tell the public where the red areas are…
  • The legislation does not appear to provide a limit on how far a person can be escorted from the green area…
  • No criminal convictions are necessary to be on the list. It is only necessary that the Police Commissioner satisfy himself that a particular person would pose serious threats…

Given the good-natured protests thus far, police concerns have hardly been warranted, and a please explain might be in order as to why their fears were even remotely believable to begin with.

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Protesters: how quaint

Tuesday, 4 September 2007 in Current affairs, Photography by Enoch Lau | 1 comment

Protesters at Railway Square

Protesters protesting about something at Railway Square: passers-by (like me) seemed to treat them as a curious spectacle with all our camera phones instead of pondering whatever message they were trying to get through. (I tried to work out what they were trying to say, but I couldn’t work it out. Probably “Bush Sucks” or some paraphrasing thereof.)

An insane number of police - everyone was well behaved though. I saw an officer recording the entire thing on tape - probably not for funniest home videos. I was going to take a photo of him but I remembered the lady from Redfern Legal Centre at the SULS APEC talk - “there’s only one crime, and that’s pissing off a police officer.”

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