The Australian government has scrapped a widely-criticised policy of automatically locking up all asylum seekers on arrival.
The move by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's centre-left labour government, which won power last November, overturns a mandatory detention policy introduced by the previous conservative government of John Howard. Immigration Minister Chris Evans told reporters in Sydney that this wasn't about ''a mass opening of the gates'', but instead about a more ''humane treatment'' of asylum seekers. The immigration department will now have to justify the detention of any refugee every three months and an ombudsman will review cases Team confident over injured Evans ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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