Australian officials illegally bugged East Timor's negotiating team for a treaty that covered dividing oil resources. A whistleblower revealed this. The culpable officials are not on trial; the whistleblower and per lawyer are.

Meanwhile, the state is suppressing the whistleblower's name. Is it really secret? Has perse been disappeared? Are per relatives friends threatened with prosecution if they tell anyone what happened to so-and-so? Do they have to pretend that so-and-so became a hermit?

Has anyone published who Witness K is?

Is this secrecy supposedly for the benefit of Witness K? If so, does it really provide any benefit to per? Does perse want to keep per name secret, or is it being done to hurt per. Or is perse being bullied into cooperating with the secrecy?