AUSTRALIA MUST RELEASE REFUGEES SUBJECTED TO ‘CRUEL’ TREATMENT – UN RIGHTS EXPERTS

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Date: 22 Aug 2013 11:00:00 -0400
Subject: AUSTRALIA MUST RELEASE REFUGEES SUBJECTED TO 'CRUEL'
TREATMENT – UN RIGHTS EXPERTS
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AUSTRALIA MUST RELEASE REFUGEES SUBJECTED TO 'CRUEL' TREATMENT – UN
RIGHTS EXPERTSNew York, Aug 22 2013 11:00AMAustralia's arbitrary and
indefinite detention of 46 refugees amounts to "cruel, inhuman and
degrading treatment" the United Nations Human Rights Committee has
<"http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13648&LangID=E">said,
calling for their immediate release.

The refugees, who have been held in detention for at least two and
half years, had been recognized as asylum-seekers who could not return
to their homes. However, the Australian Government refused to grant
them visas on the grounds that they posed a security risk.

The 46 refugees – 42 Tamils from Sri Lanka, three Rohingya from
Myanmar and a Kuwaiti –were not told the reasons of why they were
considered a security risk, and so could not mount a legal challenge
to their indefinite detention.

"The combination of the arbitrary character of (their) detention, its
protracted and/or indefinite duration, the refusal to provide
information and procedural rights to (them) and the difficult
conditions of detention are cumulatively inflicting serious
psychological harm upon them," the Geneva-based UN Human Rights
Committee said in their findings following an examination of the case.

The Committee, composed of 18 independent human rights experts, found
that the refugees' detention was arbitrary and violated Article 9 of
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR),
which states that no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or
detention.

The experts said Australia is obliged, under Article 2 of the
Covenant, to provide all 46 refugees with effective remedy. This
includes releasing them under appropriate conditions, and offering
them rehabilitation and compensation. Australia is also under an
obligation to take steps to prevent similar violations in the future.

The Human Rights Committee monitors implementation of the ICCPR by
States parties. It considered this case under the First Optional
Protocol to the Covenant which gives the Committee the capacity to
examine individual complaints.Aug 22 2013 11:00AM
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