{"id":343990,"date":"2021-10-10T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/oct\/11\/authoritarian-style-law-would-allow-australia-to-use-secret-evidence-to-deport-migrants"},"modified":"2021-10-10T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T16:30:07","slug":"authoritarian-style-law-would-allow-australia-to-use-secret-evidence-to-deport-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/10\/authoritarian-style-law-would-allow-australia-to-use-secret-evidence-to-deport-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Authoritarian-style\u2019 law would allow Australia to use secret evidence to deport migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed legislation would install a \u2018regime of alarming secrecy\u2019, legal organisations and rights groups have told parliament<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/mar\/17\/make-sense-of-the-week-with-australia-weekend?CMP=cvau_sfl\">try our weekend edition app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Chris* had never been charged with a crime, never accused, never questioned. But his visa was summarily cancelled, and he was no longer welcome in Australia, the only country he had ever known as home.<\/p><p>Chris had lived in Australia for more than 30 years since the age of one, but had his visa cancelled in 2019 for having once been a member of an \u201coutlaw motorcycle group\u201d, the Mongols \u2013 despite that group not being outlawed in the state where he lived.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/oct\/11\/authoritarian-style-law-would-allow-australia-to-use-secret-evidence-to-deport-migrants\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/oct\/11\/authoritarian-style-law-would-allow-australia-to-use-secret-evidence-to-deport-migrants\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed legislation would install a \u2018regime of alarming secrecy\u2019, legal organisations and rights groups have told parliamentGet our free news app; try our weekend edition app; get our morning email briefingChris* had never been charged with a crime, n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1729,1730,36739,2883,6,13082,242,238],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343991,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343990\/revisions\/343991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}