Unrestricted access: OZschwitz to allow UN inspection of prisons and detention centres to stamp out torture
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Subject: Unrestricted access: OZschwitz to allow UN inspection of prisons and detention centres to stamp out torture Thu Feb 09, 2017 7:57 pm
Independent inspections at youth prisons or immigration detention centres will be permitted after the Turnbull government pledged to ratify a United Nations treaty in a bid to stamp out torture.
The decision comes just two years after then prime minister Tony Abbott complained "Australians are sick of being lectured to by the United Nations" when the government was found in breach of an anti-torture convention.