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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1989

79 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 4

Inquiry into deaths during police raid on hostile village

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 21 April 1989 · page 2

The Army and police are conducting independent investigations into last week’s clash at Nahalin, southwest of Bethlehem, in which Border…

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Special police units

Tribune · Wednesday 26 April 1989 · page 11

Following the recent police misconduct at Toowoomba in Queensland, in drinking, rioting etc, it is time that the federal government, with the…

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Melbourne youths charged with daubing synagogue

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 28 April 1989 · page 7

TWO YOUNG men from Prahran will be charged in the Magistrate’s Court with defacing buildings following the daubing of…

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Gundy Killing -- Full Inquiry into police powers & actions needed! EDITORIAL

Tribune · Wednesday 3 May 1989 · page 1

The shooting to death by NSW police Special Weapons Operations Section of Aborigine, David Gundy, last week is ultimate confirmation, if it was ever needed, of the rampant discrimination and racism within the police force. Official responses since the shooting are…

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SWOS officer removed amid calls for Review of police, charges against Gundy killer

Tribune · Wednesday 3 May 1989 · page 3

The dawn shooting last week of 32 year-old Aborigine, David Gundy, by the NSW Special Weapons…

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Nakash sentenced to 20 years for gangland killing in France

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 5 May 1989 · page 5

BESANCON, France - William NaIcash was last Saturday sent to jail for 20 years for the 1983 murder here of. Abdelali Hakkar, a former…

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FILM reviews Assault of the Killer Bimbos

Tharunka · Tuesday 9 May 1989 · page 35

"I'll never learn to be a go-go dancer -1 feel so stupid -1 should have gone to college!" ASSAULT of the Killer Bimbos, alas, does not live up to the expectations created by…

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Nahalin probe faults Border Police

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 12 May 1989 · page 3

The IDF inquiry commission into the April 13 Border Police search and arrest raid on the West Bank village of Nahalin has recommended…

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Case of murdered Bat Yam teenager baffles police

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 12 May 1989 · page 5

TEL AVIV - If police don’t crack the murder case of Oren Brahami, 13, who was found dead in Jaffa on May 2, it will join a growing number…

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“Brutal” Border Police

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 19 May 1989 · page 23

Sir, - It was touching to read your attempt to find something good to say about the Border Police (“The right men for the job,” March…

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Police probe alleged fraud

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 19 May 1989 · page 5

TeL AVIV - Police raided the offices of several lawyers last week, confiscated records and questioned several lawyers, among them a…

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News Report Court acquits soldiers of manslaughter Army orders to beat rioters were illegal

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 2 June 1989 · page 3

A military court last weeK acquitted four soldiers of the Givati brigade and a doctor of manslaughter in the death of a resident in the…

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Soldiers sentenced for brutal beating Courts says officers must also face trial

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 23 June 1989 · page 3

The IDF "must have the courage tod look at itself in the mirror," declared the head of the Southern Command's military tribunal after…

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Court to aid women seeking divorce

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 23 June 1989 · page 18

A special rabbinical court is to begin functioning by next week to deal with the problems of agunot (women whose husbands are…

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High Court ruling splits Ethiopian Jews

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 23 June 1989 · page 5

A ruling by the High,Court of Justice last week regarding the marriages of Ethiopian Jews has resulted in a lift in the community, Jerusalem attorney Dr. Michael Corinaldi, who represented the Ethiopians…

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News Report Court releases last of Kifl Harith suspects

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 23 June 1989 · page 2

By JOSHUA BRILLIANT TEL AVIV - The District Court here last week released the last of eight students of the Joseph’s Tomb…

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Beit She’an police baffled by theft of priceless ancient mosaic

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 30 June 1989 · page 6

Jerusalem Post Reporter BEIT SHE’AN - Police here are bewildered by the theft last Thursday of a mosaic floor from the…

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Menahem Stern, murder victim, was top Second Temple historian Great, but unassuming, scholar

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 30 June 1989 · page 5

Jerusalem rost Reporter “Stern would have liked us to say Hashem yinkom darrio [May God avenge his blood], but he would…

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Anti-Arab backlash: Fringe groups blamed Jewish underground at work, police say

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 30 June 1989 · page 1

By JOSHUA BRILLIANT and Jerusalem Post Staff Police believe they arc about to crack open a Jewish underground organization formed to attack Arabs. This follows the capture of a West Bank settler who last…

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Tim Anderson Political Police?

Tharunka · Tuesday 4 July 1989 · page 25

In 1978 a bomb exploded in a garbage bin outside the Hilton Hotel, killing two garbage collectors and a police officer. This dramatic event occurred in the midst. of a Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM). Ananda Marga] was one of a number of groups demonstrating at the CHOGM meeting, at which…

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