Morrison declined to apologise in March 2015 when an earlier report he commissioned, the Moss review, found a lack of evidence that contract service providers on Nauru had facilitated protest activity, encouraged self-harm or fabricated assault allegations.
The Moss review found no conclusive evidence that the staff members had facilitated protest activity, encouraged self-harm or fabricated assault allegations, and called on the immigration department to review the decision to remove them.
Philip Moss, a former integrity commissioner, said he had uncovered no conclusive information that contract service providers on Nauru had facilitated protest activity, encouraged self-harm or fabricated assault allegations.
Facilitating protest must include adherence to all human rights law, including the rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
The state should not create any unnecessary obstacles and has a positive duty to facilitate protest, including counter-protest.
E-mail may have facilitated protest by the Falun Gong, but protest does not equal democratization, especially when answered by crackdowns from a powerful government.
By making coordination visible to a broad audience, activists can facilitate protest, but they also make their coordination visible to the state, enabling targeted repression.
While both studied communities are characterized by strong active engagement in protest activities, a low level of confidence in the effectiveness of protests to affect decisions of political authorities was also detected.
These tools are also used to provide alternative framings of the protest movement and protest activities.
The memorandum singles out lawful protest activities.
They had been convicted for draft protest activities.
