WELLINGTON - Submissions close tonight on a proposed law change allowing the SIS to break in to homes, but the activist whose actions prompted the amendment is boycotting the process.
Aziz Choudry, the Christchurch Gatt Watchdog organiser, took the SIS to court after his house was broken into by its agents.
The Court of Appeal found action was illegal under present SIS legislation.
A week later, Prime Minister Jenny Shipley announced she would change the law to allow SIS break-ins in the interests of national security.
Mr Choudry has accused the Government of making the law change so protesters can be targeted in the lead-up to the Apec leaders' meeting in Auckland in September.
He said in a statement yesterday that the submission process on the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service Amendment Bill was like a "kangaroo court."
The legislation is to be considered by the Intelligence and Security Committee, made up of senior MPs and ministers from Labour and National - Mrs Shipley, Labour leader Helen Clark, Labour MP Mike Moore and National ministers Sir Douglas Graham and Don McKinnon.
"All five politicians who sit on this committee wholeheartedly support the law change and the indecent haste with which it is being rammed through."
They have already made up their minds about the issue."
Mr Choudry said he would not "dignify the process by sending a submission to a kangaroo court."
Hearings on the submissions are due to start on February 9. - NZPA
Activist slams SIS `kangaroo court'
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