Union activist arrested by UN in E.Timor

[Grant Lee <grantlee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[I don't believe the occupying forces in Iraq have stooped this low...well
not yet anyway.]


Australian unionist arrested by UN in Dili

October 7, 2003 - 2:14PM
United Nations police have arrested an Australian union official in East
Timor in what international unions describe as unprecedented and unjustified
interference in industrial issues.
Sydney union official Mick Killick was arrested and detained in Dili on
Sunday after taking part in a peaceful community protest at the Dili
Airport, the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) said.
Mr Killick had travelled to East Timor to help establish a Maritime and
Transport Union.
"It was a sit-in protest at the airport to protest against the loss of jobs
from an Australian-based company, Timor Aviation Services, and on the second
day the United Nations police came through and only arrested Mick Killick,"
ITF Australian coordinator Dean Summers said.
"It would seem they targeted him.
"They took him to the Dili lock up where he has been ever since."


- AAP

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/07/1065292574454.html