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 J... Read more

When Algerian fugitive Ahmed Zaoui arrives in New Zealand on a false passport just before Christmas 2002 and asks for as... Read more

In a post-9/11 world, Ahmed Zaoui’s arrival immediately thrusts New Zealand into the US-led War on Terror, and he is loc... Read more

The Ahmed Zaoui case is a test for Helen Clark’s Labour Government, as she has already refused to allow New Zealand to b... Read more

Even when Zaoui wins refugee status, the SIS still argues he is a threat to our national security – and won’t say why. T... Read more

Zaoui becomes a hero when he is transferred from solitary confinement to Mt Eden Prison, where some inmates believe he i... Read more

Zaoui gets bail and is given sanctuary with a houseful of Catholic priests in central Auckland – but his lawyer worries ... Read more

Deborah Manning decides that if the SIS won’t reveal their evidence, then she will find it independently by travelling t... Read more

Finally, the hearing to review Ahmed Zaoui’s security risk certificate is scheduled for July 2007. Deborah Manning’s sec... Read more

Deborah Manning produces her star witness but runs into an unexpected obstacle. Eventually as the SIS case crumbles, Zao... Read more