AAP General News (Australia)
04-26-2011
FED:Hunger strike continues at Curtin
Detainees are continuing a hunger strike at Western Australia's Curtin Immigration
Detention Centre today .. but the numbers vary from a dozen .. to more than 100.
An immigration spokeswoman says 12 detainees have told staff they're on voluntary starvation
as part of a larger peaceful protest that started on Saturday.
Yesterday about 20 needed treatment after being out in the heat.
IAN RINTOUL of the Refugee Action Coalition says 109 detainees at Curtin are on a full
hunger strike and up to 500 didn't front for breakfast this morning.
He says they're protesting over delays in processing their claims .. and Immigration
Minister CHRIS BOWEN's plans to tighten the immigration character test to deter bad behaviour
won't address the underlying problems of lives being devastated by mandatory detention.
AAP RTV ldj/jmt
KEYWORD: DETAINEES CURTIN (PERTH)
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