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Article: AUSTRALIA: ACTIVISTS DEMAND END TO JAILING ASYLUM SEEKERS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- May 7, 2002
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CANBERRA, May 7 (IPS) -- After 10 years of the Australian
government's policy of imprisoning asylum-seekers without visas,
human rights groups are optimistic that growing community concern
at the human and economic costs of this hardline approach is slowly
forcing changes to it.
"It's time after 10 years to say 'let's look at better ways of
doing this' -- and there are better ways of doing it", said the
spokeswoman for Amnesty International, Georgina Costello.
"Detaining children for up to five years, frequent rioting and
self-harm by detainees, are not acceptable by-products of refugee
processing," she said.
The practice of holding those asylum ...