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Feb. 3rd, 2016
Refugee Update
Feb. 3rd, 2016 10:27 amETA: High Court throws out challenge to offshore immigration detention (ABC, 3 February 2016)
The future of Australia's offshore immigration detention regime will be decided today as the full bench of Australia's High Court gathers in Canberra.: "For the past nine months, lawyers for a Bangladeshi woman have argued it is illegal for the Australian Government to operate and pay for offshore detention in a third country. The court will this morning hand down its finding and, if it agrees, Australia's entire offshore detention regime could be deemed invalid." (ABC, 3 February 2016)
Doctors risk jail time for speaking out about treatment of children in detention (7:30, 2 February 2016) "These kids feel to me like they've been through a mincing machine. They've had one traumatic event after another. I sometimes feel they are broken into little bits and it's really hard to put the pieces back together again."
5yo boy allegedly raped on Nauru could be sent back to detention centre, doctor says (ABC, 2 February 2016)
Sri Lankan asylum seeker tells of terror on Nauru: 'If I am sent back, I will commit suicide' (GA, 3 February 2016)
Australia's right to send asylum seekers offshore faces dual challenges (GA, 2 February 2016): "... the supreme court of Papua New Guinea is hearing a challenge that contends the offshore detention regime that currently houses more than 900 men on Manus Island is unconstitutional... The court’s decision could have the power to close Manus."
The future of Australia's offshore immigration detention regime will be decided today as the full bench of Australia's High Court gathers in Canberra.: "For the past nine months, lawyers for a Bangladeshi woman have argued it is illegal for the Australian Government to operate and pay for offshore detention in a third country. The court will this morning hand down its finding and, if it agrees, Australia's entire offshore detention regime could be deemed invalid." (ABC, 3 February 2016)
Doctors risk jail time for speaking out about treatment of children in detention (7:30, 2 February 2016) "These kids feel to me like they've been through a mincing machine. They've had one traumatic event after another. I sometimes feel they are broken into little bits and it's really hard to put the pieces back together again."
5yo boy allegedly raped on Nauru could be sent back to detention centre, doctor says (ABC, 2 February 2016)
Sri Lankan asylum seeker tells of terror on Nauru: 'If I am sent back, I will commit suicide' (GA, 3 February 2016)
Australia's right to send asylum seekers offshore faces dual challenges (GA, 2 February 2016): "... the supreme court of Papua New Guinea is hearing a challenge that contends the offshore detention regime that currently houses more than 900 men on Manus Island is unconstitutional... The court’s decision could have the power to close Manus."