ske-lee-ton:
rogueoftimeywimeystuff:
chameleonlurks:
be mad at lord dampnut all you want, but don’t forget to throw shit at our own government first.
Some one care to explain go the ignorant American?
Australia is a shit place. We have a tonne of immigration detention centres known for being abusive as fuck. We have a policy of /mandatory immigration detention/ (detaining non-citizens not holding a valid visa, suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorised arrival, and those subject to deportation and removal in immigration detention until a decision is made by the immigration authorities). The law permits /indefinite detention/.
Australia is the only country in the world with a policy of mandatory detention, and offshore processing, of asylum seekers who arrive without a valid visa.
People who have had their visas cancelled by the Minister are also subject to these mandatory detention rules, even after living in Australia for a long time. In some circumstances, dual citizens have had their Australian citizenship stripped, and have been detained. The majority of the people detained are asylum seekers, who came to Australia to escape the harsh conditions of where they came from. Despite wishing to leave Australia, illegal immigrants can still be detained indefinitely. It is incredibly difficult for anybody from the media to access these detention centres, and are “rumoured” to be incredibly corrupt.
People that are found to be “legitimate refugees” still do not get to settle in Australia, and are instead sent to Papua New Guinea to live, after being processed through the Australian-run PNG detention centres. Non “legitimate refugees” are either sent to a third country, or detained indefinitely.
In 2016, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ruled that detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island was breaching their constitutional right to freedom and thus illegal, and ordered the Australian-run detention centre to close. We told them that the 850 detainees are now their responsibility, and would not come to Australia.
“The facilities have been a source of much controversy during their time of operation. There have been a number of riots and escapes, as well as accusations of human rights abuses from organisations such as refugee advocates, Amnesty International, the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Human Rights Watch, and the United Nations. Journalists are forbidden from entering the detention centres.”
“On January 2014, the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Greens accused the government of a cover-up over a violent clash on 18 October 2013 at the Manus Island facility between the Papua New Guinea army and the Papua New Guinea police mobile squad hired for the facility’s security, leading to Australian expatriate staff being evacuated, while local staff and asylum seekers remained. On 5 May 2014, it was reported that several Salvation Army staffers had alleged that refugees were regularly subjected to beatings, racist slurs, and sexual assaults within the facility.”
“Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM Human Rights Commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) held an inquiry into mandatory detention of children who arrived without a valid visa over the period 1999–2002 (with updates where possible – the report was completed in April 2004) . The vast majority of children arrived and were put into mandatory detention facilities with their families for indefinite periods of time with no real opportunity to argue their case before independent tribunal or court. The inquiry found that between 1 July 1999 and 30 June 2003, 2184 children were detained after arriving in Australia seeking asylum without a visa. Approximately 14% of those children came to Australia alone (unaccompanied children). Most of them came from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. Almost 98 percent of the Iraqi children were recognised as refugees;
The inquiry found that children detained for long periods of time were at a high risk of suffering mental illness. Mental health professionals had repeatedly recommended that children and their parents be removed from immigration detention. The inquiry found that the Australian government’s refusal to implement these recommendations amounted to ”..cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of those children in detention".
The inquiry also found that many basic rights outlined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child were denied to children living in immigration detention.“
“Following a complaint lodged in 2011 regarding the resulting indefinite detention, in 2013 the United Nations Human Rights Committee found Australia guilty of 138 counts of illegal detention, lack of judicial remedy, or inhumane or degrading treatment.”
“As of 29 April 2016, there have been 40 deaths under immigration detention custody. 19 people are known or are suspected to have committed suicide in or as a result of immigration detention.”
“In February 2005, it was revealed that a mentally ill German citizen holding Australian permanent residency, Cornelia Rau, had been held in immigration detention as an unauthorised immigrant for 11 months, after identifying herself as a backpacker from Munich under the name of Anna Brotmeyer.”
“In May 2005, it was revealed that a total of 33 cases of people being wrongfully detained under the Migration Act 1958 were known. This included the case of a woman, Australian citizen Vivian Alvarez Solon, who was forcibly deported to the Philippines and who subsequently went missing. As of May, it was not known how many actually spent time in an immigration detention facility. By late May, Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone announced that more than 200 cases of possible wrongful immigration detention had been referred to the Palmer Inquiry. In October 2005, the Commonwealth Ombudsman revealed that more than half of those cases were held for a week or less and 23 people were held for more than a year and two of them were detained for more than five years. Australia’s longest-serving detainee in immigration detention was Peter Qasim who was detained for more than 7 years before being released in 2005 on a bridging visa.”
“In 2006, the federal government made a $400,000 compensation payout to an 11-year-old Iranian boy, Shayan Badraie, for the psychological harm he suffered while being detained in Woomera and Villawood detention centres between 2000 and 2002.”
“On 24 August 2014, 24 year old Iranian asylum seeker Hamid Kehazaei sought medical treatment at the detention centre’s clinic for an infected wound. Kehazaei’s condition worsened and he could not be treated on the island. Medical staff sought his immediate evacuation, but permission was not granted until 26 August. Kehazaei was declared brain dead in a Brisbane hospital on 2 September 2016. With his family’s permission, his life-support was switched off on 5 September 2016. An inquest into Kehazaei’s death began in the Coroner’s Court in Brisbane on 28 November 2016.”
“On 17 February 2014, a series of protests by detainees at the centre escalated into a serious disturbance, during which and subsequent events resulted in the death of one detainee: 23-year-old Iranian asylum seeker Reza Berati was murdered. Two detention centre workers, Joshua Kaluvia and Louie Efi, were sentenced for Berati’s murder in April 2016.”
Detainees are sexually abused with full knowledge from the staff, but the crimes are going unpunished. (Important article: https://web.archive.org/web/20131121194121/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/01/sex-assaults-manus-island-unpunished )
“In October 2015, Chris Kenny, a political commentator for The Australian, became the first Australian journalist to visit Nauru in over 18 months. While on the island, Kenny interviewed a Somalian refugee known as “Abyan”, who alleged she had been raped on Nauru and requested an abortion of the resulting pregnancy. Pamela Curr of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre accused Kenny of forcing his way into Abyan’s quarters to speak to her—a claim Kenny strongly denied. In June 2016, the Press Council of Australia dismissed a complaint regarding the wording of his article and its headline.“
“A month-long hunger strike began on 10 December 2003. It included mostly Hazara from Afghanistan rescued during the Tampa affair, who were protesting for the review of their cases.”
“The re-opening of the centres sparked criticism of Australia’s Labor Government after the United Nations refused to assist the government on the mandatory measures. In November 2012, an Amnesty International team visited the camp and described it as “a human rights catastrophe … a toxic mix of uncertainty, unlawful detention and inhumane conditions”.“
“Between 1998 and 2008, the UN Human Rights Committee made adverse findings against Australia in a number of immigration detention cases, concluding that Australia had violated the prohibition on arbitrary detention in Article 9(1) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The longest-held detainee within the Australian immigration detention system was Peter Qasim, who was detained for six years and ten months.”
“In 2016, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau, criticised Australia’s policies of mandatory and off-shore immigration detention. Crépeau claimed that Australia had adopted a “punitive approach” towards migrants who arrived by boat which had served to “erode their human rights”.“
We don’t have a wall to stop illegal immigration. We have horrific torture camps. We have thousands of people detained. Mental health professionals have told us to stop. Amnesty International have told us to stop. The UN has told us to stop. But mandatory detention for illegal immigrants continues, for more than 20 years now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_in_Australia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_immigration_detention_facilities
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Solution
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manus_Regional_Processing_Centre
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_Regional_Processing_Centre
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG_solution
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylum_in_Australia