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Police Shut Down Another Asylum Seeker Incident

by moveforward on September 1, 2010

Living in Australia

Authorities shut down a demonstration of individuals seeking asylum held outside of Darwin’s immigration detention center nearly eight hours after the protests began.

The protest was conducted by eighty Afghani men who were peacefully picketing outside the detention center in the outskirts of Darwin, Australia. The police descended on the picket line and the protestors were quietly herded into police vans to be taken to a safe house in the Central Business District. [click to continue…]

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