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on April 16, 2015 in World News

Australia to authorize guards to ‘beat asylum seekers to death’

Australia to authorize guards to ‘beat asylum seekers to death’ An inquiry by the Australian Supreme Court has proposed new powers to officers at immigration centers, granting them right to resort to violence, should they find it necessary, according to a former Victoria supreme court judge. Following a Senate hearing of an amendment to the new migration bill Stephen Charles SC, who was the Victoria court of appeal judge until 2006, told the Guardian on Thursday that it would “inevitably encourage violence by guards against asylum seekers” by considerably expand their powers. The new powers, applying to immigration officers, would… View Article

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