The release of Australian-born academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert from an Iranian prison last month demonstrates the power of determined international pressure, in this case led by our Foreign Minister Marise Payne, applied both publicly and behind the scenes.
I am hopeful that the government’s efforts in relation to Dr Moore-Gilbert will be replicated to achieve justice for 15-year-old Australian school student Malki Roth and her grieving family.
In the years since her release, Tamimi has been living freely in Jordan and has become quite the celebrity, the host of a popular television program that she uses as a platform for continuing to boast about how many Jewish children she has murdered.
Since 2016, Tamimi has been the subject of a US Department of Justice arrest warrant on a charge of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against American nationals, including Malki Roth. By virtue of having an American-born mother, Malki had dual Australian-US citizenship.
Read the article by Jeremy Leibler in The Canberra Times.