"He kept asking: 'How many of you are there?' At that point he rolled me over on to my stomach and pulled down my pants and my underwear. "I do remember saying at this point, 'This is torture', and he said, 'I don't give a f***'. Greg Rolles' wrist after he was allegedly detained by Defence personnel. "He then went on to put a hessian sack over my head, and after that was on I heard one of the two men say, 'Welcome to the bag, motherf*****s'," he said. Mr Rolles still has the marks around his wrists he says are from the cable ties his captor used to handcuff him. "That didn't stop him from tackling me as hard as he could and throwing me into the ground." For about the last 15, 20 metres I had my hands in the air saying, 'I'm a non-violent protester and I won't be resisting'.
"This man charging at me was one of the scariest things I have seen. "We heard a car come screaming around the corner and two plain-clothed men jumped out and rushed towards us," protester Greg Rolles told 7.30. When four of the men took photos of themselves holding anti-war banners, they were apprehended by a group of plain-clothes Defence personnel believed to be from the crack commando unit, the SAS. It is not open to the public without Defence or ASIS approval.Įarly last Thursday, eight protesters from the Swan Island Peace Convergence made it on the island where they split into two groups of four. Swan Island, 90 minutes from Melbourne, is used for training by the Australian Secret Intelligence Agency (ASIS), the overseas arm of the country's spy network. The Defence Force has initiated an inquiry into claims by a group of anti-war protesters that they were hooded, stripped and dragged on a Victorian island used as a military intelligence base.
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