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Thomas challenges govt control order
2006-10-02
The federal government's tough anti-terrorism laws face a High Court challenge from freed terrorist suspect Joseph Terrence Thomas. Lawyers for Thomas, who became the first Australian to have his movements restricted by a control order, appeared before the High Court in Melbourne on Monday. Thomas was placed on the order days after the Victorian Court of Appeal on August 18 quashed his convictions for receiving funds from al-Qaeda and holding a false passport. His lawyers have asked for the order to be quashed and are challenging the validity of the section of the criminal code act used to impose the interim control order. The order places a curfew on the Melbourne father of three, and that he must report to police three days a week, and is banned from contacting a list of people, including al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden....
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