Fears of uni spies after five charged over G20 violence
from the sun-herald (sydney)
March 18, 2007
STUDENTS suspect ASIO and police officers have been spying on the Sydney University campus after undergraduate activists were arrested last week.
Three activists and a university librarian taken into custody on Wednesday have been accused by Victorian detectives of taking part in last year’s G20 protest violence in Melbourne. But student leaders say the arrests were also linked to State and Federal Government attempts to intimidate them in the lead-up to Sydney’s APEC summit in September.
The four men were roused from their Sydney homes at dawn, strip-searched and charged with riot, affray, unlawful assembly and dangerous conduct. A fifth suspect subsequently turned himself in.
The four activists charged on Wednesday - Sunil Menon, 25, of Darlington, Daniel Jones, 20, of Balmain, Timothy Davis-Frank, 22, of Bronte and Daniel Robbins, 23, of Newtown - will face Melbourne Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. A 17-year-old youth was also charged.
The university’s Student Representative Council has written to vice-chancellor Gavin Brown insisting he clarify whether the presence of ASIO, state or federal police on campus constitutes an infringement of rights.
Source: The Sun-Herald
Interesting. What evidence are these suspicions based on?
Comment by troll — March 19, 2007 @ 11:42 pm
There’s some more info here http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/mar2007/raid-m20.shtml
Apparently, the SRC president at sydney uni was tipped off by a journo.
Possibly Jonh Kidman, just to speculate…
Comment by max — March 23, 2007 @ 4:45 am