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Tuesday March 15, 10:00 PM
"Jihad" Jack speaks at public meeting
Australian terrorist suspect "Jihad" Jack Thomas celebrated his continuing freedom at a public meeting of around 150 supporters.
Earlier on Tuesday Thomas fended off a Crown move to revoke his bail and send him back to solitary confinement to await trial.
Thomas is facing charges of receiving financial support from the al-Qaeda terrorist network, providing al-Qaeda with resources or support to carry out a terrorist attack and having a false passport.
He was first arrested in Pakistan in 2002 on suspicion of being associated with al-Qaeda.
Thomas was released without charge in Pakistan and returned to Australia in June 2003 and was arrested during a counter-terrorism raid at his home in November last year.
He claims that he suffered physical and psychological abuse during interrogations in Pakistan.
Those issues were raised at a meeting of between 100 and 150 supporters, attended by Thomas and his family, at Trades Hall in Melbourne.
His father, Ian Thomas, told AAP the meeting canvassed the issue of human rights abuses.
"There are concerns about the use of physical and psychological abuse to get information," he said.
Mr Thomas said his family believed that Jack Thomas' case could be compromised because of the way evidence was obtained.
"Of itself, the evidence would be quite flimsy."
Thomas' younger brother Les earlier told ABC radio the tendency since the start of the war on terror was to believe it was okay to use torture to get information.
"We think torture is something that not only brutalises the victim of it but the society that condones it," he said.