José Ramos-Horta calls on Timor-Leste to award Australia’s Witness K top honour

Exclusive: Former president lauds convicted bugging whistleblower for exposing Australian government perfidy, bad faith and dishonesty in robbing world's poorest country'

Jose Ramos-Horta will formally request that Timor-Leste award Witness K the nation's highest honour, praising him for exposing Australian government perfidy, bad faith and dishonesty" in a bugging operation conducted for the sole purpose of robbing the poorest country in the world".

Witness K, a former Australian Secret Intelligence Service officer, was convicted on Friday and handed a three-month suspended jail term for his role in exposing a spy operation targeting Timor-Leste during negotiations to carve up oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea.