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Amnesty International Australia firmly rejects the Federal Government\u2019s response to last week\u2019s a High Court decision, which will further punish and put at risk a group of people who have served their time, including refugees in need of protection. It breaches Australia\u2019s international obligations and risks refouling refugees to countries where they fear harm. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The High Court on Thursday ruled that punitive measures \u2014such as ankle monitors and curfews\u2014 for those released from immigration detention are unlawful and unconstitutional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government has responded with a Bill reintroducing the use of electronic ankle bracelet monitoring and curfews, measures that the High Court determined can only be imposed by courts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amnesty International Australia asserts that using surveillance and monitoring on people who have already served their time unacceptably infringes on the right to liberty and dignity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bill further allows the government to pay third countries to accept non-citizens. Critically, it provides that when the government gives a mandatory notice to a person of third country \u201cacceptance<\/a>\u201d, their Bridging Visa will automatically be cancelled, enabling their re-detention under the guise of seeking to deport them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These sweeping measures are an attempt to circumvent High Court decisions and are a crushing setback for the rights of people seeking asylum. The expanded government power to deport people with cancelled visas to unknown third countries raises grave concerns for the safety and security of those seeking international protection. Detaining individuals subject to a third country agreement effectively reintroduces indefinite detention by stealth. It undermines the legitimacy of the High Court ruling in a previous case NZYQ which held indefinite detention is unlawful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amnesty condemns the Government\u2019s attempt to absolve Australia of its international obligations under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, including Articles 31 and 33, which guarantee non-refoulement and the right not to be punished for people seeking asylum. This move highlights the Government\u2019s preference for imposing quick fixes and increasing domestic costs, all while continuing its punitive agenda against refugees, people seeking asylum, and migrants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This scheme will mean families will be separated and people permanently prevented from returning to their home in Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A similar scheme, designed to avoid Australia\u2019 responsibilities and outsource refugee protection to third countries, was tried by the Coalition in 2014. It was an expensive failure. The government paid $55 million for the deal, and all but one of the 10 refugees transferred there were forced to leave. One person remains in Cambodia, struggling and stateless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zaki Haidari, Amnesty International Australia\u2019s Strategic Campaigner for Refugee Rights<\/strong> says: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe welcome the High Court\u2019s ruling declaring punitive surveillance and monitoring measures unlawful, but the Government has once again failed to prioritise human rights over political games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast week, the Government rushed to introduce new legislation that not only reinforces the unlawful punitive measures but also grants the Minister more power to detain and deport refugees\u2014potentially back to the countries they fled from in search of safety. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis political game is nothing new. When Labor was in opposition, the Liberal Government introduced the \u2018Cambodian deal\u2019 that their immigration spokesman Richard Marles called an ‘expensive joke<\/a>.’ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe reality is that successive governments have ignored the human rights of individuals, placing political interests ahead of respect and dignity for human beings.”<\/p>\nZaki Haidari, Amnesty International Australia\u2019s Strategic Campaigner for Refugee Rights<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe reality is that successive governments have ignored the human rights of individuals, placing political interests ahead of respect and dignity for human beings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Federal Government must stop playing politics with people\u2019s lives and recognise that refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers are human beings who have fled the most dire of circumstances.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In 2014 former Immigration Minister Scott Morrison made a deal with Cambodia to accept refugees held by Australia in Nauru. Cambodia, a struggling economy with a track record of human rights abuses and not signatory to the Refugees Convention, took in only 10 people and declared the deal closed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cambodia\u2019s interior minister later admitted it was a failure, and the country did not have social programs to support refugees to integrate. One refugee remains stuck in Cambodia, a Rohingya man who escaped persecution in Myanmar, who struggles to find work and is stateless without ID documents or citizenship. The Australian government effectively abandoned these individuals, subjecting them to even greater risks and human rights abuses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This past decision illustrates the deeply flawed proposal to deport refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants to third countries, furthering Australia\u2019s abhorrent treatment of those seeking safety and permanent protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amnesty International Australia firmly rejects the Federal Government\u2019s response to last week\u2019s a High Court decision, which will further punish and put at risk a group of people who have served their time, including refugees in need of protection. It breaches Australia\u2019s international obligations and risks refouling refugees to countries where they fear harm. 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