Australia has offered asylum seekers at immigration camps in Southeast Asia up to AU$10,000 (US$9,400) if they drop their applications for refugee status and return home, a local newspaper reported. The report by The Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday prompted outrage from refugee campaigners who said asylum seekers could face persecution in their home countries. The newspaper said those returning to Lebanon from detention centres on Papua New Guineas Manus Island and the tiny Pacific state of Nauru were offered the highest amount of AU$10,000. Iranians and Sudanese were given AU$7,000 if they dropped bids for refugee status, Afghans $4,000 and those from Pakistan, Nepal and Myanmar AU$3,300, the report said.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 08:17:40 +0000
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