Protest outside Immigration Department

No transfers to Cambodia!

No transfers to Iran!

No immunity for detention centre guards!

Please join us on Benjamin Way, outside the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, this coming Tuesday to protest the further ramping up of Operation Sovereign Borders, and to show your support for asylum-seekers suffering in detention.

The Australian Government plans to transfer the first group of refugees from Nauru to Cambodia this coming Monday. On top of having a poor human rights record, Cambodia is a developing country without the necessary resources to provide a future for these refugees.

Also next week, the foreign minister Julie Bishop will be travelling to Iran to lobby for the repatriation of asylum-seekers in Australia whose refugee applications are unsuccessful. There is a real fear among asylum-seekers held in detention that they will face persecution if returned to Iran.

Detainees fear being sent to Nauru for good reason. Recent allegations by Save the Children staff claim the Government knew of numerous instances of rape and sexual abuse, exposed last month in the Moss Review, for over 17 months yet failed to investigate. Every day Nauru is more resembling a failed state, with recent laws effectively banning protests. Now the Australian Government is planning to introduce new laws which have been criticised by Gillian Triggs, Human Rights Commissioner, and senior legal experts, which will give detention centre guards almost total immunity for any brutality they commit there.

Join us at 5pm this coming Tuesday, 21 April, outside the Department of Immigration and Border Protection in Belconnen to show the Government you won’t be silent.

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