The circumstances of at least one other boat of 150 asylum seekers, including an unknown number of Tamils, is unknown. It is now understood, as a result of distress signals picked up by the New Zealanders, that there is also a third boat intercepted by Australia. Australia has non-refoulement obligations under both the refugee convention and the convention against torture: No State Party shall expel, return [refouler] or extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture. It doesnt get more straight forward than that. Those obligations also form part of our domestic law because that article from the torture convention is incorporated into the Migration Act. The legislation defines persecution as serious harm ... systematic and discriminatory conduct. theguardian/world/2014/jul/07/handing-back-asylum-seekers-is-called-refoulement-and-its-illegal
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 07:27:44 +0000
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