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Update: The New Charges
Oct 31, 2023
32m 21s
Chapter 10: Postscript
Aug 1, 2021
30m 14s
Chapter 9: The Backdown
Aug 1, 2021
34m 35s
Chapter 8: Dirty Tricks
Aug 1, 2021
30m 02s
Chapter 7: Playing Detective
Aug 1, 2021
31m 07s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 10/31/23 | Update: The New Charges | Two years ago, this podcast concluded with a happy ending, and a hopeful outlook, for Ahmed Zaoui and his family. But earlier this month, that all changed after Ahmed was arrested in his home country of Algeria, and now faces serious charges that include the death penalty as a possible punishment. John Keir returns for this new episode of Enemy of the State, joined once again by lawyer Deborah Manning to discuss what this all means for Ahmed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 32m 21s | ||||||
| 8/1/21 |  Chapter 10: Postscript | Zaoui is finally free to enjoy life in New Zealand and be reunited with his wife and children. Then he gets a mysterious offer to return to Algeria. Narrator John Keir reflects on what Zaoui’s story tells us about ourselves as a country and about the... | 30m 14s | ||||||
| 8/1/21 |  Chapter 9: The Backdown | Deborah Manning produces her star witness but runs into an unexpected obstacle. Eventually as the SIS case crumbles, Zaoui wins not just his freedom but a private moment of vindication. | 34m 35s | ||||||
| 8/1/21 |  Chapter 8: Dirty Tricks | Finally, the hearing to review Ahmed Zaoui’s security risk certificate is scheduled for July 2007. Deborah Manning’s secret witness flies into New Zealand and Ahmed Zaoui comes face to face with the man who destroyed his life. | 30m 02s | ||||||
| 8/1/21 |  Chapter 7: Playing Detective | Deborah Manning decides that if the SIS won’t reveal their evidence, then she will find it independently by travelling to Europe to penetrate the secret world of the European security agencies. There she comes across a shadowy figure who will change... | 31m 07s | ||||||
| 8/1/21 |  Chapter 6: Crescent and Cross | Zaoui gets bail and is given sanctuary with a houseful of Catholic priests in central Auckland – but his lawyer worries he will be framed again. Meanwhile, Stuart Grieve QC enters the picture as a ‘special advocate’ with security clearance to see the... | 32m 31s | ||||||
| 8/1/21 |  Chapter 5: The Tipping Point | Zaoui becomes a hero when he is transferred from solitary confinement to Mt Eden Prison, where some inmates believe he is a friend of Osama bin Laden. Meanwhile, the stress of the case has an impact on his lawyer Deborah Manning’s personal life. | 30m 17s | ||||||
| 8/1/21 |  Chapter 4: Fighting Windmills | Even when Zaoui wins refugee status, the SIS still argues he is a threat to our national security – and won’t say why. Things get more complicated when a retired judge set to hear Zaoui’s case gives a magazine interview… | 34m 35s | ||||||
| 8/1/21 |  Chapter 3: A Rock in the Road | The Ahmed Zaoui case is a test for Helen Clark’s Labour Government, as she has already refused to allow New Zealand to be part of the American ‘coalition of the willing’ invasion of Iraq. Now her government is under pressure to show the country’s... | 40m 21s | ||||||
| 8/1/21 |  Chapter 2: Big Fish | 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... | 32m 37s | ||||||
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| 8/1/21 |  Chapter 1: The Fugitive | 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... | 31m 19s | ||||||
| 7/22/21 |  Trailer | 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... | 1m 05s | ||||||
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