Adam Whittington gets travel ban lifted
Adam Whittington gets travel ban lifted
( Adam Whittington gets travel ban lifted )
– VideoImage Adam Whittington released from Beirut jail 1:31 Adam Whittington speaks as he boards a plane after being released from a Beirut jail, thanking all involved in his releasePaul Toohey News Corp Australia NetworkADAM Whittington has flown out of Beirut after its Executive Court lifted a travel ban preventing him from leaving Lebanon.Following days of judicial wrangling after Adam Whittington was freed on bail last week, Judge Youssif el Hakeem lifted a travel-ban order that had been applied for by Ali Elamine.Mr Ali Elamine was not happy with orders allowing Mr Whittington and three accomplices to go free on bail after they — having been paid by 60 Minutes — staged a Beirut street-side abduction of his two young children in early April.
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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 WhittingtonUpdatedA judge in Beirut has lifted a travel ban on Adam Whittington, the former Australian soldier 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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Whittington’s Lebanon travel ban lifted
( Whittington’s Lebanon travel ban lifted )
– A travel ban imposed on a former Australian soldier charged over 60 Minutes’ botched child abduction has been lifted, his lawyer in Lebanon says.Australian-British man Adam Whittington was granted bail last week, after he and three of his associates were arrested in the hours after the “child recovery” operation, which was filmed by a Nine Network TV crew in April.But he was prevented from joining his family in Sweden by a ban that was sought by lawyers for the children’s father, Ali Elamine.
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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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