Published: June 22, 2020
Former Timor-Leste president José Ramos-Horta says Canberra lawyer and Witness K ‘rescued Australia from moral depravity’
Bernard Collaery has said he longs to defend himself in an open court and labelled his secret trial a “disgrace”, as the former president of Timor-Leste likened Australia’s treatment of the Canberra lawyer to North Korean or Soviet-era “political trials”.
A national security episode of the ABC’s Q+A program on Monday highlighted the controversial prosecution of Collaery, who is facing the prospect of jail if convicted over his role as legal counsel to a former intelligence officer who exposed the Australian government’s bugging of Timor-Leste during oil treaty negotiations in 2004.
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