Enemy of the State: The Ahmed Zaoui File

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 himself and the lawyers who took on the Prime Minister and the SIS to save him.

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Episoder(12)

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 gove...

1 Aug 202140min

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...

1 Aug 202132min

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 lawy...

1 Aug 202131min