2005

Banning JI not the answer: rights advocate

5 October  2005 | The Age Online
By Christopher Kremmer
BANNING Jemaah Islamiah would be a knee-jerk reaction that would not prevent bombings such as those in Bali and could make terrorism even harder to eliminate, a respected Indian human rights campaigner and former prisoner has warned.

Ravi Nair — who spent a year in New Delhi’s notorious Tihar jail under emergency laws in the 1970s and who now heads the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre in New Delhi — is in Sydney at the invitation of the Edmund Rice Centre, a faith-based research and advocacy group.

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