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Asylum seekers detected in boats in Australian waters have been detained in facilities on the offshore islands of Nauru and Manus Island, previously under the now defunct Pacific Solution and (since 2013 and as of March 2019) under Operation Sovereign Borders.
Australian government immigration detention centres in Australia and offshore Facility Status Classification Managed Opened Closed Capacity nominal; [surge] Location Baxter Immigration Reception and Processing Centre: Closed: Maximum: Australasian Correctional Management (G4S subsidiary) September 2002: August 2007: 660; [220] Cultana, South ...
The Nauru Regional Processing Centre is an offshore Australian immigration detention facility in use from 2001 to 2008, from 2012 to 2019, and from September 2021. It is located on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru and run by the Government of Nauru .
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Some of the 267 asylum seekers Australia wants to deport to an offshore immigration center following a court ruling are suffering from cancer.
The Manus Regional Processing Centre, officially Manus Island Regional Processing Centre (MIRCP), [1] was one of a number of offshore Australian immigration detention facilities [2] created after the Australian Government instituted its Operation Sovereign Borders policy, aimed at stopping maritime arrivals of asylum seekers to Australia. [3]
However, the asylum seekers refused to disembark until 18 November, following assurances of fast-tracked processing of their cases for resettlement. [32] As of 29 March 2010, 100 asylum seeker boats had been intercepted within Australian waters during the life of the Rudd government. [33]
Australia has released a stateless Rohingya man held in immigration detention for years, the government said on Friday, following a landmark court ruling that paves the way to end the indefinite ...