The October 21st deadline has past and the Australian government has not responded to the United Nations Human Rights Committee regarding their treatment of Sheikh Mansour Leghaei.

Scott Ludlum of The Greens has questions pending in Parliament, calling on the government to account for its actions.  Meanwhile Associate Professor Ben Saul has addressed members of the legal fraternity on this issue and has published a paper that gives a comprehensive examination of the legal dimensions of the case, entitled “The Kafka-esque Case of Sheikh Mansour Leghaei: The Denial of the International Human Right to a Fair Hearing in National Security Assessments and Migration Proceedings in Australia”

You can pick up a PDF version of Ben Saul’s paper here.

June 3rd, 2010 – over 1000 of us gather at Parliament House, Canberra, to protest the pending deportation of Sheikh Mansour Leghaei.

Sheikh Mansour is to be deported without trial. Despite living peacefully for 16 years in Australia and raising a family of four children, the government is deporting him without giving him any explanation.

Thursday, June 3rd 2010, more than 1000 men, women and children travelled to Canberra to march on Parliament House, calling on the Australian government to heed the request of the United Nations and halt the deportation of Sheikh Mansour Leghaei.

The event was covered on a variety of TV News stations and in all the major papers.

Links to other TV and Newspaper coverage:

• ABC News: Sheikh’s supporters protest against his deportation
• SBS World News: Hundreds protest over sheikh’s deportation
• Bigpond News: Protesters rally over Sheikh deportation
• Brisbane Times: Peace prize winner in bid to save sheikh
• eFarming: Sheikh’s supporters protest against his deportation
• Optus News: Deporting sheikh ‘would breach human rights’
• Seven News: Sheikh’s supporters protest against his deportation
• Sky News: Protesters rally in bid to save Sheikh (video not working)

International coverage:

• RFI.fr (French News): L’Australie expulse un cheikh islamiste accusé d’être un risque pour la sécurité nationale (nb. click icon in top-right corner to replay radio interview).

Join us on Thursday June 3rd at 11.30am in Canberra.

Full details can be found at CanberraRally.com and you can download the poster with the details here.