Refugee Update
Feb. 23rd, 2016 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyNo doubt to the government's delight, a guard claimed that Baby Asha's mother deliberately burned her. Police (rightly) investigated; they have closed their investigation without laying charges. Hospital records are a reminder of the conditions in which detainees live on Nauru: "The injury occurred when [the child] pulled a bowl containing recently boiled water off a table onto herself. [Asha] lives in a tent with no kitchen facilities except for a kettle. [Her] mother boils all the water she consumes to ensure it is safe for drinking... There is no clinical evidence that the burn injury was non-accidental." ETA: More details.
Baby Asha's family allegedly prevented from speaking to lawyers by Border Force (ABC, 23 February 2016)
Moving Baby Asha: both sides claim victory but there is no solution here (GA, 22 February 2013): "Taking Asha out of hospital and into detention in Australia spares the infant an immediate return to Nauru but leaves her – and government policy – in limbo."
Save the Children workers seek compensation after false Nauru detention centre claims; Timeline: Why Save the Children workers want almost $1 million compensation from the Federal Government (7:30, 22 February 2016)
Catching up on links:
Most voters in PM's electorate want women, children out of Nauru detention: poll (The Age, 2 December 2015)
Doctors break ranks amid ramped up calls for Government to release children from detention (ABC, 3 December 2015): "More than 3,000 doctors and leading health experts have signed a petition calling on the Federal Government to act immediately to remove children from immigration detention."
Fifth refugee secretly moved from Nauru to Cambodia under $55m deal (GA, 26 November 2015)
Baby Asha's family allegedly prevented from speaking to lawyers by Border Force (ABC, 23 February 2016)
Moving Baby Asha: both sides claim victory but there is no solution here (GA, 22 February 2013): "Taking Asha out of hospital and into detention in Australia spares the infant an immediate return to Nauru but leaves her – and government policy – in limbo."
Save the Children workers seek compensation after false Nauru detention centre claims; Timeline: Why Save the Children workers want almost $1 million compensation from the Federal Government (7:30, 22 February 2016)
Catching up on links:
Most voters in PM's electorate want women, children out of Nauru detention: poll (The Age, 2 December 2015)
Doctors break ranks amid ramped up calls for Government to release children from detention (ABC, 3 December 2015): "More than 3,000 doctors and leading health experts have signed a petition calling on the Federal Government to act immediately to remove children from immigration detention."
Fifth refugee secretly moved from Nauru to Cambodia under $55m deal (GA, 26 November 2015)
