Whittington awaiting travel ban verdict
60 Minutes: Beirut judge lifts travel ban on child recovery team member Adam Whittington
( 60 Minutes: Beirut judge lifts travel ban on child recovery team member Adam Whittington )
– 60 Minutes: Beirut judge lifts travel ban on child recovery team member Adam WhittingtonPostedA judge in Beirut has lifted a travel ban on Adam Whittington, the former Australian solder who organised the botched “child recovery” operation for Chanel Nine’s 60 Minutes program.Whittington, who was released from a Beirut prison last week, spent more than three months in jail after authorities charged him over the bungled kidnapping of two children in a case covered by the 60 Minutes program.Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner, Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes crew and Whittington and his associates were accused of trying to forcibly take Ms Faulkner’s children — who were living in Beirut with her estranged ex-partner Ali Elamine — and return them to Australia.
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Bailed ‘child recovery’ expert Adam Whittington hit with Lebanese travel ban
( Bailed ‘child recovery’ expert Adam Whittington hit with Lebanese travel ban )
– The Australian child recovery expert at the centre of the botched 60 Minutes kidnapping saga could be forced to stay in Lebanon for at least another two months after a dramatic legal intervention by the children’s father.Adam Whittington was last week granted $US20,000 ($26,000) bail by a Lebanese court after being charged with kidnapping of the children in a bungled operation in April involving Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner filmed by the television program.The children were living in Beirut with their father, Ali Elamine, who is Ms Faulkner’s estranged ex-partner.
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Whittington awaiting travel ban verdict
( Whittington awaiting travel ban verdict )
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Turkey: Work travel ban on academics after failed coup
( Turkey: Work travel ban on academics after failed coup )
– Temporary ban on travel due to flight risk of alleged accomplices of coup plotters, Turkish official tells Al Jazeera.Turkey’s higher education council has banned academics from leaving the country for academic purposes and urged those overseas to quickly return home, according to state media and a Turkish official.”It is a temporary measure that we were compelled to take due to the flight risk of alleged accomplices of coup plotters in universities,” a Turkish official, who asked to remain anonymous, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday.
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