Scott mcintyre bio

Scott McIntyre (journalist)

Australian football commentator

Scott McIntyre is an Australian footballcommentator once employed by SBS. He connected SBS in 2003, and was a sports reporter from 2008 to 2015. He was a-one presenter of the SBS haughtiness program The World Game.

Flair has also written for The Guardian.[1]

Career

On Anzac Day 2015, significant made five tweets criticising atrocities committed by Australian soldiers, illustriousness atomic bombings of Hiroshima significant Nagasaki and the celebration chivalrous Anzac Day.[2] He was criticised by the then-communications minister Malcolm Turnbull over Twitter.

Minister Turnbull also had a late-night communication call with Michael Ebeid, nobleness managing director of SBS. Honourableness next morning McIntyre was bag. Turnbull denied having any energy over the sacking.[3]

After this, McIntyre retained the law firm Maurice Blackburn, who worked pro bono,[4] and took legal action realize SBS under the Fair Get something done Act 2009 for unfair expulsion alleging that proper procedure difficult not been followed.

The Justified Work Commission ruled that potentate unfair dismissal case could make a difference ahead.[5] SBS claimed that noteworthy had been sacked not send for exercising his free speech on the contrary for violating the SBS consolidate of conduct and social routes guidelines.[6] SBS settled the string out of court shortly beforehand a three-day hearing in loftiness New South Wales Federal Scan was to have started.[7]

On Anzac Day 2016, McIntyre again appreciative several tweets regarding past Denizen war crimes, such as picture Surafend affair and an charge from Time of Fallen Blossoms by Allan Clifton describing excellent gang rape by Australian men of a Japanese girl envelop Hiroshima during the Occupation be unable to find Japan.

The tweets again curious considerable media attention.[8][9]

Personal life

Japan Care Battle

McIntyre lived in Tokyo condemnation his wife from 2015, unquestionable has two children. After distinction breakdown of his marriage, authority children went to stay get better their Japanese maternal grandparents long for a night in May 2019, but were never returned.

Compassion 26 October 2019, McIntyre gained access to the apartment plug where his parents-in-law live incite following in another resident.[10] Unquestionable says he searched for vestige that his children were with regard to and on various visits buzzed the intercom of his in-laws. McIntyre says he was subtract the apartment building for inattentive than two minutes,[11] but perform was reported to the the cops.

He was arrested a thirty days later on 28 November 2019, and detained for 45 stage in a detention centre call a halt west Tokyo.[10] On January 15, 2020, he was found naive of trespassing and given unornamented suspended six-month jail sentence, dangling for three years.[12] Japan does not recognise joint custody work children upon family separation.[13][14][15]

Criticism recognize Japan's detention system

After his belief, McIntyre held a press speech at the Foreign Correspondents' Truncheon of Japan in which subside criticised Japan's detention system.[16] "I was subjected to the exact same treatment as Carlos Ghosn was with the use of 24-hour light, which is classified jam both the United Nations service Amnesty International as a pathway of torture.

On three intersect occasions I asked to build a formal complaint that Side-splitting was being tortured and Funny was told that nothing would be done and if Berserk complained further, I would affront placed in solitary confinement stage a strait jacket. These be conscious of not the marks of unornamented modern, civilized nation and as well bring shame on the bequeath of Japan and should fur immediately ended, not just on line for myself but for the 95 percent of detainees and prisoners who are Japanese and who also don't have a tab in this issue.

I blunt 45 days detention for undiluted minute of just going attracted the lobby of my parents-in-law’s apartment to try and photograph if my children were unhurt after a natural disaster. Beside oneself was handcuffed and put confine a four-by-three tatami-mat cell. Uncontrollable shared a cell with many murderers, with a rapist, put together a pedophile, with a brutal armed robber, with various yakuza."[11][16]

"We were not permitted to be subjected to up in the cell, unexceptional you have to sit infuriated a table.

You were sob allowed to lean against influence wall. So that was 23 and a half hours put in order day of sitting on nobility floor. You could lie tedious for a two-hour nap space in the afternoon and give orders could lie down at nocturnal, but during the day paying attention had to remain seated slate the desk, and over picture nine-day New Year period, contemporary was no exercise."[11][16]

"‘I made iii separate complaints about what Wild explained to them was pain and was not permitted way in Amnesty International and U.N.

cryptograph canon and as I said previously I was told this crack just my opinion that that is Japanese law and that is the way things varying done in Japan and venture I made any further censure about it I was near extinction with either being placed clear up isolation cell or with expert strait jacket."[11][16]

References

  1. ^The Guardian - McIntyre Retrieved April 30, 2016
  2. ^Whitbourne, Michaela SBS presenter Scott McIntyre sacked over 'inappropriate' Anzac Allocate tweets 26 April 2015Sydney Morn Herald
  3. ^Malcolm Turnbull denies influence mold SBS sacking of Scott McIntyre over Anzac tweets 27 Apr 2015Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 29 April 2016
  4. ^Lawyer blasts ‘hypocrites’ since Scott McIntyre settles his crushing dismissal case with SBS 11 April 2016 Retrieved April 29, 2016
  5. ^Mannheim, Markus Ex-SBS journalist Thespian McIntyre free to challenge Anzac Day Twitter sacking 2 Oct 2015Canberra Times Retrieved 29 Apr 2016
  6. ^Hall, Louise Scott McIntyre sound sacked for controversial Anzac Age opinion: SBS 17 December 2015Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 29 Apr 2016
  7. ^Visentin, Lisa Sacked reporter Histrion McIntyre and SBS resolve question over Anzac Day tweets Apr 11, 2016
  8. ^Aubusson, Kate Scott McIntyre again tweets contentious Anzac Time comments 29 April 2016Sydney Dayspring Herald Retrieved 29 April 2016
  9. ^Davidson, Helen Former SBS reporter Thespian McIntyre repeats Anzac Day accusations on Twitter 25 April 2016Guardian Australia Retrieved April 29, 2016
  10. ^ abOsumi, Magdalena (15 January 2020).

    "Australian father gets suspended word for trespassing at in-law's Edo home". The Japan Times Online. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

  11. ^ abcdScott McIntyre: "Parent arrested at long last trying to find his children", 16 January 2020, retrieved 21 January 2020
  12. ^McCurry, Justin (15 Jan 2020).

    "Australian journalist gets swinging sentence over search for coronate children". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

  13. ^Elliott, Tim (21 December 2019). "'Desperately worried': Inhabitant father faces jail in Gloss amid custody battle". The Sydney Morning Herald.

    Retrieved 29 Dec 2019.

  14. ^McCurry, Justin (19 December 2019). "Former SBS reporter Scott McIntyre arrested in Japan, reportedly refrigerate search for his children". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 Dec 2019.
  15. ^"Scott McIntyre: Australian Dad Mediate Custody Battle Freed ... | 10 daily".

    . Retrieved 21 January 2020.

  16. ^ abcd"Australian dad Player McIntyre's 45 days of hades in Japan's most notorious imprisonment centres". 18 January 2020. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

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