I just heard on the radio

[*crikey*mate*]

3 Asylum Seekers in detention escaped yesterday.

So far police have been unable to find them.

Anyone know anything about this?

Any links etc?

[*crikey*mate*]

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@boris1gary wrote:

Think they were spotted washing windscreens earlier.

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LOL, well at least they are earning money to live on and not stealing stuff etc, or putting others into difficult positions for harbouring escaped detainees.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@just_me_karen wrote:
If you were locked behind a razor wire fence for endless years without triial, after escaping persecution, would you consider it "safety"?

I sure wouldn't. I'd call it "persecution"

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why didn't Labor provide them with a trial? They had 7 years....

[boris1gary]

According to some on another thread those windscreen cleaners are a menace to society, go figure.

[izabsmiling]

I don't know how long each of the men concerned have been there ...I do know that things have changed haven't they ?

Including access to legal aid ....so for anyone there things may be more desperate ..knowing that ?

I wonder if most of the men are Vietnamese ?

Advocates have expressed concerns over "interviews" conducted by Vietnamese officials with immigration detainees in WA. 

By 

Ron Sutton

 

UPDATED 5:15 PM - 13 SEP 2013

An interview or an interrogation?

An immigration official or the secret police?

Those are the kinds of questions at play as a tense drama - and trauma - unfolds at a detention centre north-east of Perth.

One man tried to hang himself.

Five others made a break for freedom, spending days on the run in unfamiliar bush until they were recaptured, hungry and lost.

Hundreds more staged a 24 hour hunger strike.

Each case involved Vietnamese asylum seekers at the Yongah Hill immigration detention centre outside Perth.

And each came after Vietnamese authorities were allowed to enter the centre to interview as many as a hundred or more of the detainees.

Or, as the president of the association the Vietnamese Community in Western Australia, Dr Anh Nguyen, puts it, allowed to interrogate them.

"Many have tried to escape because they've been interviewed -- I use the word 'interrogated,' not just interviewed -- by the Vietnamese secret police from the A18 Section, sent to this area. And they escaped because they saw no future for themselves. And, recently, they have reported that their families in Vietnam have been harassed, beaten up ... arrested. And one of the fathers of a detainee was taken away from the family for almost a month now."

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/09/13/alarm-over-foreign-officials-wa-detention-centre

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

crikey*mate wrote:

That annoys me. That's time and money that could be spent processing applicants. The purpose of asylum is for safety. They are provided with safety and then abuse it.

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If I were trying to seek asylum in another country and then locked up and treated like an animal I'd try to escape too.

[just_me_karen]

Do asylum seekers steal? I didn't know that. Link please?

[pct001wine]

Run Forrest, run.

[*crikey*mate*]

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@just_me_karen wrote:
Do asylum seekers steal? I didn't know that. Link please?

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if a detainee escapes and they have no money, no access to welfare, how do you think they might feed themselves?

It's not like they can ask anyone for food or money, or they risk getting caught.

so how do you think they would get food to eat?

[*crikey*mate*]

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@buzzlightyearsgirlfriend wrote:

@crikey*mate wrote:

That annoys me. That's time and money that could be spent processing applicants. The purpose of asylum is for safety. They are provided with safety and then abuse it.

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If I were trying to seek asylum in another country and then locked up and treated like an animal I'd try to escape too.

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well then, you must not really be seeking safety then, eh?

In which case, you are not a true asylum seeker.

[just_me_karen]

I reckon they'd get a job, like the 50,000 + other paperless immigrants. Or, they can ask family. Or, they could ask me...I'd happily give them some food.

lol at thinking they escape and steal, it's a bit like you're scared of them?