deportation

From Pamela Curr, via email 11am today, 12 September 07:

A Chinese man in Australia for the last ten years and held in immigration detention for the last 4 years, is to be deported September 12, based upon an unsigned undated warrant lacking vital information issued by China, and despite a UN Human Rights Committee request to stay his removal pending their investigation.

Latest News: Chinese man awaiting deportation now in Bankstown Hospital ...

“To send this man to China against the UN request would place Australiain breach of the International conventions and put us alongside thosehuman rights violating countries who have no standing and respect in the world community” said Pamela Curr of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC). “Does this government want to go into an election with blood on its hands?”

"Advocates are heartsick about the fate of three men sent back to China", says Pamela Curr of the ASRC. "We have heard nothing from these men, we do not know if they are dead or alive. Because of the grave risk of yet another disappearance, a UN Human Rights Communication was sought to stay the removal of a fourth man on Monday. This was successful." says Curr.