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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: October 8, 2015
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: October 8, 2015
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: October 2, 2015
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: September 29, 2015
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Liberty Victoria Updates
Post date: September 24, 2015
On the 12th of September, at our annual fundraising dinner at the San Remo Ballroom, the Liberty Victoria 2015 Voltaire Award was made to the "three brothers", Al Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy. The award was given in recognition of their courage and persistence... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: September 24, 2015
The human rights group Liberty Victoria is overjoyed at the news of the release of two journalists from an Egyptian prison.
Al Jazeera staff Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy were pardoned by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and released from prison in Cairo yesterday.
Liberty President George Georgiou... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: September 23, 2015
More money is needed to support prisoners on release, leading to greater public safety and a saving of taxes.
The rights group, Liberty Victoria, said this today in welcoming the Victorian Ombudsman’s report into prisoner rehabilitation. Particularly pleasing are recommended changes to the... Read more
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Liberty Victoria in the News
Post date: September 17, 2015
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Press Release
Post date: August 30, 2015
A fortnight before three journalists are to receive an award for their work for press freedom two of them have been jailed.
Imprisoned are al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed. Their outraged colleague, Australian Peter Greste, is home after being deported but was also given a... Read more
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Press Release
Post date: August 24, 2015
Liberty Victoria has welcomed the Victorian government’s decision to remove Special Religious Instruction (‘SRI’) from scheduled class time at government schools. The government has announced instead that SRI will only be available before or after school or at lunchtime.
The government’s move comes... Read more
