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| Subject: OZschwitz gulag: Refugee lawyers challenge indefinite detention rule Wed Dec 12, 2012 2:06 am | |
| THE federal government will defend its right to keep refugees in indefinite detention by claiming a High Court judgment in relation to one Sri Lankan asylum seeker does not apply to boat people.
Fifty-five asylum seekers are being held in detention indefinitely because they have been found to be genuine refugees, so they cannot be returned to their home countries, but ASIO has given them an adverse security assessment, so they cannot be settled in Australia. No third country is willing to take them.
The High Court ruled in October that a 36-year-old Tamil man known as M47 had been refused a protection visa on the basis of an invalid regulation, in a decision that was widely expected to extend to the rest of the group.
But the Australian Government Solicitor has written to the lawyers representing another member of the group, S138, saying that the ruling did not apply to him because he was an ''offshore entry person''. He arrived at Christmas Island by boat in July 2009.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/refugee-lawyers-challenge-indefinite-detention-rule-20121211-2b7lr.html#ixzz2EoqAEmhK
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