http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Zaoui Posts tagged with 'Zaoui' at MetaFilter. Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:39:18 -0800 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:39:18 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/46883/One%2Dmans%2Dterrorist <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/author/story.cfm?a_id=29&amp;ObjectID=10351650">The Cult of Zaoui.</a> Algerian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zaoui">Ahmed Zaoui</a> arrived in New Zealand in December 2002, having been convicted in Belgium and France (in absentia) for terrorism-related offences, on a false passport requesting <a href="http://www.humanrights.co.nz/current/documents/RSAAdecision.pdf">refugee status</a>. He was imprisoned for two years (spending <a href="http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,226565-1-7,00.html">ten months</a> in solitary confinement) as a result of the Security Intelligence Service issuing a <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3550415">security risk certificate</a>, before the <a href="http://www.justice.govt.nz/supremecourt/SC%20Civ%2013%202004%20Zaoui%20Bail-9%20December%202004.pdf">NZ Supreme Court</a> granted him bail. He now lives in a <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10332554">Dominican Priory</a> in Auckland under curfew, but manages (accompanied by his <a href="http://www.conferenz.co.nz/2004/library/m/PDF/manning_deborah_2.pdf">crusading young lawyer</a>) to give <a href="http://www.vuw.ac.nz/religion/events/wtgn_events/zaoui_lecture.htm">public lectures</a>, offer <a href="http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=84487">eulogies</a>, publish a <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3448836a11,00.html">book</a> of <a href="http://www.craigpotton.co.nz/products/published/books/bookartscrafts/grantbirds24contemplations">poetry</a>, appear in a <a href="http://www.davedobbyn.co.nz/welcomehome-vid.asx">music video</a> (wmv), sing onstage at the <a href="http://publicaddress.net/default,2599.sm#post2599"> NZ Music Awards</a>, inspire a fund-raising cookbook "Conversations over Couscous", and has become (depending on your viewpoint) a reluctant or carefully cultivated celebrity. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.46883 Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:39:18 -0800 detention human New refugee rights terrorist Zaoui Zealand szechuan