Hey guys, tomorrow Ill be heading up to Canberra to help with this event! Well be walking around ASIOs national office for 32 consecutive hours. Each hour represents one asylum seeker with an adverse ASIO assessment that is still in Australian onshore detention after 5 years. Ill be running the media side of things, if you want regular updates from us, here is our facebook page, or follow on Twitter @walkingforfreedom :) ***About the ASIO negative assessments*** Between January 2010 and November 2011, ASIO issued adverse security assessments to 54 refugees who had arrived in Australia by boat. These refugees, mostly Sri Lankan Tamils, were indefinitely detained onshore. Reasons for their negative assessments were kept from them, leaving them unequipped to defend their own cases. In 2012, the High Court deemed the refusal of a protection visa to a genuine refugee unlawful and at odds with the Migration Act, even with ASIO’s adverse security assessment. Since then, ASIO has reversed some of the adverse assessments and 22 of those who were indefinitely detained have gradually been released. However, over two years later there are still 32 refugees indefinitely detained onshore.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:11:43 +0000
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