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மீதி 153 தமிழ் அகதிகளையும் இலங்கையிடம் ஒப்படைக்கும் அவுஸ்த்திரேலிய அரசின் முயற்சிக்கு உயர் நீதிமன்றம் இடைக்கால தடை விதிப்பு

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நேற்று அவுஸ்த்திரேலியாவுக்கு வந்த 41 அகதிகளை கடலில் வைத்தே உரிய விசாரணை ஏதுமின்றி இலங்கைக் கடற்படைக் கப்பலில் ஏற்றி திருப்பியனுப்பிய அவுஸ்த்திரேலிய அரசு, இன்னொரு கப்பலில் வந்த 153 தமிழ் அகதிகளையும் இன்னமும் கடலில் தமது சுங்கக் கப்பலில் வைத்திருப்பது தெரிந்ததே. நேற்று 41 அகதிகள் வலுக்கட்டாயமாக சிங்கள கடற்படையிடம் கைய்யளிக்கப்பட்டதை அடுத்து மீதமுள்ள 153 தமிழ் அகதிகளியும் அதே பாணியில் சிங்களக் கடற்படையிடம் கைய்யளிக்க முயற்சிகளை மேற்கொண்டுவந்த அவுஸ்த்திரேலிய அரசிற்கு பேரிடியாக அந்நாட்டு உயர் நீதிமன்றன்று விதித்துள்ள இடைக்கால தடையுத்தரவு அமைந்திருக்கிறது என்றால் அது மிகையாகாது. அகதிகளூக்காக செயல்ப்படும் ஒரு வழக்கறிஞர் தாக்கல் செய்த மனுவை விசாரணைக்கு ஏற்றுக்கொண்ட உயர் நீதிமன்றம், இந்த ஆட்கடத்தல் முயற்சிக்கு இடைக்கால தடையை வித்தித்திருக்கிறது. மேலதிக செய்திகள் தொடரும்......


High Court injunction halts handover of asylum seekers

Updated 4 minutes ago

The High Court has granted an interim injunction to stop more than 150 asylum seekers being returned to Sri Lanka by the Australian Navy.

After two weeks of silence, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison today confirmed 41 asylum seekers have been handed over to Sri Lanka's military after being processed at sea.

But he refused to discuss the whereabouts of 153 asylum seekers on another boat believed to be facing the same fate.

Refugee advocates seeking to protect those asylum seekers made an application to the High Court, which granted the injunction after an urgent hearing.

The interim injunction will be in place until tomorrow afternoon, when the matter is set to be heard in the High Court.

The 153 asylum seekers made contact with Australian authorities after leaving southern India, and claim to be Tamil refugees.

More to come.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-07/high-court-injunction-halts-handover-of-asylum-seekers/5579726

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நவீன அவுஸ்திரேலியாவை, வளர விடாது தடுத்து வருகின்ற பிரித்தானியக் காலனித்துவப் பரம்பரையின் எச்சங்கள், ஒதுக்கப் படுகின்ற காலம் அண்மிக்கின்றது!

 

உயர் நீதிமன்ற தீர்ப்பையும் ஒரு பக்கம் ஒதுக்கி விட்டுத் தனத மனிதாபிமானமற்ற நடவடிக்கைகளைத் தொடரக்கூடிய ஒரு தலைவரே ரோனி அப்போட் !

 

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இந்த தீர்ப்பினால் நிம்மதி இழந்து தவிக்கும் என் நண்பனுக்கு எப்படி ஆறுதல் தெரிவிப்பேன்?????

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அப்பாடா ஒருவழியாக தாமதமாகவேணும் அவுஸ்ரேலிய நீதி துறை கண்முழித்திருக்கிறது!

அந்த 43 பேரையும் அவுஸ் அரச செலவில் மீள விமானம் மூலம் அழைத்து தகுந்த விசாரணையின் பின் அவர்களின் தஞ்ச கோரிக்கை முடிவு செய்யப்பட வேண்டும்.

அவுஸ் கைசாத்திட்ட சர்வதேச சட்டங்களுக்கு மாறாக நடுக்கடல் ஆட்கடத்தலில் ஈடுபட்ட அபொட் மீது கிரிமினல் வழக்குப் போடவேண்டும்.

எஜமான விசுவாசதால் துள்ளி குதித்த தமிழ் ஒஸ்ரேலியன்சை மன்னித்து விட வேண்டும்.

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அவுஸ்த்திரேலிய அரசின் மனிதாபிமானமற்ற ஆட்கடத்தல் நடவடிக்கைக்கு எதிராக அவுஸ்த்திரேலிய உயர் நீதிமன்றம் விதித்துள்ள தடையுத்தரவு மற்றும், ஏற்கனவே அவுஸ்த்திரேலிய நிறவெறி அரசினால் சிங்களக் காவல்த்துறையிடம் நடுக்கடலில் வைத்து படகு மாற்றப்பட்ட அகதிகளுக்கு நடக்கவிருக்கும் போலீஸ் துன்புறுத்தல்கள் பற்றிய மேலதிக செய்திகளின் இணைப்புக் கீழே உள்ளது. அதில் முக்கியமாகக் குறிப்பிடப்படவேண்டிய விடயம், அகதிகள் என்று வந்தோரை நடுக்கடலில் வைத்து கடத்திய விடயம் சர்வதேச சட்டங்களுக்கு எதிரானதென்று சட்டவியல் நிபுணர்கள் கருத்துத் தெரிவித்துள்ளனர். மேலும், திருப்பியனுப்பப்பட்ட அகதிகள் மீது சிறிலங்கா அரசாங்கம் கடுமையான சித்திரவதை மற்றும் சிறைத்தண்டனை என்பவற்றை வழங்குவதற்கான சாத்தியப்பாடுகள் அதிகமாகத் தென்படுவதாகவும் கூறியுள்ள மனிதவுரிமைச் செயற்பாட்டாளர்கள், சித்திரவதைகளிலிருந்து தப்பியோடுபவனை மீண்டும் அதே சித்திரவதையாளனிடம் கைய்யளிக்கும் அவுஸ்த்திரேலிய அரசின் மனிதாபிமானமற்ற செயலைக் கடுமையாக விமர்சித்துள்ளனர்.

 

High Court injunction blocks handover of 153 asylum seekers to Sri Lanka

Updated 43 minutes ago

The High Court has granted an interim injunction to block the handover of 153 asylum seekers to Sri Lanka, just hours after the Government confirmed another vessel has been returned.

Refugee advocates seeking to protect the group of Tamil asylum seekers made an application to the High Court, which granted the injunction until tomorrow afternoon.

A spokesperson for Immigration Minister Scott Morrison says the "Government notes the matter is currently before the court and accordingly will be making no further comment".

Solicitor George Newhouse says he was shocked by revelations the group of 41 asylum seekers will face criminal charges after being returned to Sri Lanka after being processed at sea.

"That strengthens the urgency of court application because if this Government is putting those people at risk of criminal charges, imprisonment and torture - because that's what happens in Sri Lankan prisons - then these people need assistance urgently," he said.

He says the asylum seekers "claim that they are fleeing persecution and that they are risk of death, torture or significant harm".

"We argued that the asylum seekers are entitled to have their allegations - claims against the Sri Lankan government - heard and processed in accordance with the law," he said.

The asylum seekers are entitled to have their claims for asylum processed in accordance with Australian law. The Minister can't simply intercept them in the night and 'disappear' them.

Solicitor George Newhouse

 

"We will be making the point to the court that the asylum seekers are entitled to have their claims for asylum processed in accordance with Australian law.

"The Minister can't simply intercept them in the night and 'disappear' them."

Mr Newhouse says 48 of the 153 asylum seekers on the boat, including women and children, were named in court.

"The others we've sought protection for even though we were unaware of their names," he said.

The interim injunction will be in place until tomorrow afternoon, when the matter is set to be heard in the High Court.

It is understood some of the asylum seekers fled Sri Lanka to refugee camps in India before boarding a boat to Australia.

The Tamil Refugee Council claims at least 11 people on that boat have been tortured by Sri Lanka's intelligence services, and says there must have been more people on the ship in a similar situation.

The boat was intercepted off Christmas Island more than a week ago, but Mr Morrison has refused to comment on its fate.

Returned asylum seekers face 'rigorous imprisonment'

After two weeks of silence, Mr Morrison on Monday confirmed 41 asylum seekers have been handed over to Sri Lanka's military.

Mr Morrison says the group of asylum seekers already returned to Sri Lanka were intercepted on a boat west of the Cocos Islands.

The 37 Sinhalese and four Tamils from Sri Lanka were scanned by teleconference at sea before being transferred to the Sri Lankan navy on Sunday.

The Government says one of the Sinhalese may have had a case for seeking asylum, but opted to be handed back to Sri Lanka after being told they would be sent to Manus Island or Nauru for offshore processing.

The asylum seekers, all men, were taken to the port of Galle today and handed over to the Criminal Investigation Division, which is an arm of the intelligence branch.

It is a crime to leave Sri Lanka without leaving by an official port, so people who are caught at sea and returned are often charged with illegal migration offences.

"They will be charged under the Immigrants and Emigrants Act," police spokesman Ajith Rohana told the Reuters news agency.

"The sentence for those who are proved to have left illegally is two years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine."

 

Sri Lankan authorities will also be trying to establish if any of the men have any links to any militant groups, which officials say is why the intelligence department must screen them.

Leading refugee lawyer David Manne says it is hard to predict what will happen to them next.

"This is part of the problem that we've seen in Sri Lanka with people being essentially summarily expelled there without proper due process," he told the ABC's 7.30.

"It's a country where there is an extremely serious systematic abuse of human rights ongoing in the country against certain minority particularly, and it is often very difficult to precisely track the fate of a returned asylum seeker."

"There are profound concerns that [returning the asylum seekers] is not legal. That it is violating people's fundamental rights and putting people's lives at risk."

Legal scholars say transfer may have violated international law

Fifty-three legal scholars from 17 Australian universities say they are "profoundly concerned" the asylum seekers were subjected to "rapid and inadequate screening interviews at sea" before being returned to Sri Lanka.

In a statement, the academics say the Government's actions in returning the asylum seekers to their country of origin "raises a real risk of refoulement."

 

Refoulement is an international law term that refers to the involuntarily return of refugees to their country of origin in cases where they may face severe human rights abuse or persecution.

The scholars said returning the asylum seekers would breach Australia's obligations under international refugee and human rights law, including the 1951 Refugees Convention, 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

They also questioned the legality of holding the asylum seekers at sea.

"Holding asylum seekers on boats in this manner also amounts to incommunicado detention without judicial scrutiny," they said in a statement.

"We urgently call on the Australian Government to make public its legal justification for this operation."

Senator Hanson-Young has criticised the Government's screening process, which reportedly involved just four questions via teleconference.

"A telephone conference of four questions - really, if it wasn't so serious, if it wasn't about life and death, it'd be laughable," Senator Hanson-Young said.

Shadow minister for immigration Richard Marles has also questioned the operation.

"Australia's international obligations are reliant upon a credible processing system and we have deep concerns about how that could have been performed by video link at sea in a way which gave an individual assessment, when all the time the boat was steaming towards Sri Lanka," Mr Marles said.

Sri Lanka has not directly commented on whether Australia has acted lawfully.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-07/handing-asylum-seekers-to-sri-lankan-navy-may-not/5579776

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Sri Lanka asylum seekers returned by Australia face 'rigorous imprisonment'

By Jane Wardell and Shihar Aneez

SYDNEY/COLOMBO Mon Jul 7, 2014 6:17am EDT

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(Reuters) - Forty-one Sri Lankan asylum seekers returned by Australia are to be charged with leaving the country illegally and those found guilty face "rigorous imprisonment", police said on Monday, fuelling concerns about Australian policy and rights abuses in Sri Lanka.

Australia said the 41 were transferred to Sri Lankan authorities at sea on Sunday, but declined to comment on a second boat reported to be carrying an additional 153, saying only that it was not currently in Australian waters.

Australian border patrol personnel intercepted the first vessel carrying 41 Sri Lankans west of the remote Cocos Islands last week, after they were suspected of entering Australian waters illegally.

Australia declined to give details of how the group was transported back to the site of the transfer, which Australia said was off the eastern Sri Lankan port of Batticaloa.

The Sri Lankan navy handed the group to the police and police spokesman Ajith Rohana said they would be produced before a court in the southwestern port of Galle. He did not say when.

"Everybody will be produced before the Galle magistrate," he told Reuters. "They will be charged under the Immigrants and Emigrants Act. The sentence for those proved to have left illegally is two years of rigorous imprisonment and a fine.

"But if there are any facilitators, then they will be tried even if they have left via an authorised port legally."

Rights groups and some Western countries have raised concerns with Sri Lanka over alleged human rights violations during the final phase of the war against Tamil separatists that ended in 2009.

Sri Lanka says many asylum seekers are economic migrants, but rights groups say Tamils seek asylum to prevent torture, rape and other violence at the hands of the military. Four of the 41 asylum seekers are Tamils.

In the last three months, three Tamil asylum seekers on temporary visas in Australia, facing the prospect of being returned to Sri Lanka, have set themselves on fire. Two died. In a statement on Monday, 53 Australian legal scholars said Australia's policy "raises a real risk" of forcing people back to their place of origin, where they are expected to face persecution. That would breach Australia's obligations under international refugee and human rights law.

"These people are being held on the high seas, without being allowed to contact lawyers, challenge their detention in court or speak with family and friends," said Ben Saul, a law professor at Sydney University who signed the statement.

At worst, Australia's actions constitute "enforced disappearance", Saul said, and the government's secrecy around what it calls Operation Sovereign Borders disrespects its voluntary commitments under U.N. conventions.

A relative of a three-year-old girl aboard the boat reported to be carrying 153 asylum seekers has appealed to Australian Immigration Minister Scott Morrison to keep his family safe.

"I want to plead with the Australian minister to stop our pain and let us know what he has done with all the kids and families on the boat," the relative, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was quoted as saying in a statement from the Tamil Refugee Council.

"I ask him to be kind to these people. They are all very frightened. They cannot be sent back to Sri Lanka. Many of them will be tortured again and even killed."

The statement carried a photograph of a smiling child, identified only as Febrina, dressed in costume.

"It is a shameful state of affairs," Tamil Refugee Council spokesman Trevor Grant said in the statement. "Morrison needs to come clean and stop using the tactics of a totalitarian regime."

FOUR TAMILS AMONG ASYLUM SEEKERS

That echoes concerns voiced by the UN last week about Australia's brief assessment of the asylum seekers' claims when reports of the two boats first emerged. The government declined to comment at the time, continuing a policy of refusing to talk about "on-water operations".

"There was a lot of shrill and hysterical claims that were made over the course of the past week," Morrison told Australian radio. "None of those has proved to be true."

Morrison said the 37 Sinhalese and four Tamils went through what he called an "enhanced screening process" before the handover, adding that one Sinhalese was entitled to a further refugee assessment but had "voluntarily requested" to return. The vessel was at no stage in distress and all aboard were safe, he said.

When asked directly about a second boat, Morrison said it was not in Australian waters, but declined further comment, saying he would make further statements when other such operations were completed.

The incident comes on the eve of a visit by Morrison this week to Sri Lanka, where he is due to talk with government and defence officials and attend a ceremony with President Mahinda Rajapakse to mark Australia's gift of two former patrol vessels.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott came to power last September partly because of his tough stance on asylum seekers.

While his popularity has since plummeted, more than 70 percent of Australians support the government's border policy, including sending boats back when safe to do so, according to a recent poll by the Lowy Institute think tank.

"The government will continue to reject the public and political advocacy of those who have sought to pressure the government into a change of policy," Morrison said in a statement.

"Their advocacy, though well intentioned, is naively doing the bidding of people smugglers who have been responsible for almost 1,200 deaths at sea."

The government has touted its success in blocking asylum seeker boats, saying there have been no illegal arrivals since last December.

Australia received 16,000 asylum seeker applications last year, just under 0.5 percent of the 3.6 million lodged worldwide, UN figures show, a drop from one percent in 2010.

Opposition Greens Party lawmaker Sarah Hanson-Young told the Australian Broadcasting Corp there was "nothing legal" about the government's conduct.

"They fall far short of our international obligations," she said.

(Additional reporting by Byron Kaye in Sydney and Ranga Sirilal in Colombo; Editing by Nick Macfie and Clarence Fernandez)


ஆவுஸ்திரேலியாவின் நீதித்துறை இயங்குவது குறித்து மகிழ்ச்சி.

 

அவுஸ்த்திரேலிய நீதுத்துறை சுயாதீனமானது. அரச அழுத்தங்களுக்கு அப்பாற்பட்டது. அதனால்த்தான் அரசின் சர்வதேச அசட்டங்களுக்கும், மனிதவுரிமைக்கும் முரணான அகதி ஆட்கடத்தல் செயலினைத் தற்காலிகமாகவேனும் தடுக்க முடிந்திருக்கிறது.

 

ஆனாலும், தமது அரசு இதனை முறியடித்து மீதி அகதிகளையும் எப்படியாவது நாடுகடத்திச் சிங்களவனிடமே அனுப்பிவைக்கும் என்று ஆஸி அபிமானிகள் கூக்குரலிடலாம். இருந்து பார்ப்போம்.

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