Peace for the World

Peace for the World
First democratic leader of Justice the Godfather of the Sri Lankan Tamil Struggle: Honourable Samuel James Veluppillai Chelvanayakam

Thursday, August 22, 2013

UN finds Australia violates international law by detaining refugees


BY JDS-
22 AUGUST 2013
The UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva , on Thusrday (22), found that Australia has committed 143 serious violations of international law by indefinitely detaining 46 refugees for four years, on the basis of their ‘adverse security assessments’ issued by ASIO. The JDS has reliably learnt that most of them are Tamil asylum seekers who fled Sri Lanka's bloody civil war.Australia breached its obligations under a binding treaty accepted by Australia, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Specifically the UN found: