• Enemy of the State: The Ahmed Zaoui File

  • By: NZ Herald
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Enemy of the State: The Ahmed Zaoui File

By: NZ Herald
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  • What do you do when the state locks you in jail and calls you a terrorist - but refuses to say why?

    For the first time John Keir reveals the inside story of the fight to free New Zealand’s highest-profile political prisoner Ahmed Zaoui, from the man himself and the lawyers who took on the Prime Minister and the SIS to save him.
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    Jul 22 2021
    What do you do when the state locks you in jail and calls you a terrorist - but refuses to say why?

    For the first time John Keir reveals the inside story of the fight to free New Zealand’s highest-profile political prisoner Ahmed Zaoui, from the man himself and the lawyers who took on the Prime Minister and the SIS to save him.

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    1 min
  • Chapter 1: The Fugitive

    Chapter 1: The Fugitive
    Aug 1 2021
    When Algerian fugitive Ahmed Zaoui arrives in New Zealand on a false passport just before Christmas 2002 and asks for asylum, it sparks a five-year security scandal, leading two young immigration lawyers Deborah Manning and Richard McLeod into conflict with the Government, the secretive SIS and international spy agencies.

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    31 mins
  • Chapter 2: Big Fish

    Chapter 2: Big Fish
    Aug 1 2021
    In a post-9/11 world, Ahmed Zaoui’s arrival immediately thrusts New Zealand into the US-led War on Terror, and he is locked up in solitary confinement. The problem for his defence team is that the SIS refuses to reveal its evidence that Zaoui is a danger to national security.

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    33 mins

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