Sri Lankan asylum seekers are being deported from Australia despite fears of torture
- Written by Kirsty Anantharajah, Research Associate at ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University
A protest in Melbourne last month to stop the deportation of Tamil asylum seekers Priya and Nadesalingam back to Sri LankaEllen Smith/AAP
Earlier last month, Thileepan Gnaneswaran was separated from his wife and 11-month-old baby and deported from Australia back to Sri Lanka, the country from which he had fled six years ago. On his arrival in...
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