Glad to hear tonight that the High Court has blocked the return of 153 asylum seekers to Sri Lanka... As scholars of international law, human rights law, and refugee law we are profoundly concerned by reports that asylum seekers have been subjected to rapid and inadequate screening interviews at sea and returned to Sri Lanka...This raises a real risk of refoulement, in breach of Australias obligations under international refugee and human rights law, including the 1951 Refugees Convention, 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights....We urgently call on the Australian government to make public its legal justification for this operation - Part of a statement by 53 Legal Scholars from 17 Australian Universities this afternoon.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:15:10 +0000
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