Meanings of detain asylum in anglès

Australia's High Court has upheld the government's right to detain asylum seekers offshore.

The case, brought by the Human Rights Law Centre, challenged the legality of Australia's policy to detain asylum-seekers abroad.

Australia plans to house any citizens it evacuates from the city on an island normally used to detain asylum seekers.

Photo: supplied The centre was closed after the PNG Supreme Court ruled last year it was illegal to detain asylum seekers.

But why does Australia detain asylum seekers in offshore detention centers on Pacific islands instead of processing them in the country?

Gardaí are to be given new powers to arrest and detain asylum seekers under proposals to be considered by the Cabinet today.

Photo: Supplied The court yesterday released its ruling against the arrangement to detain asylum seekers who had tried to reach Australia on Manus Island.

The camp was set up in 2013, when Australia funded two remote Pacific detention centers to detain asylum seekers who arrive by boat indefinitely.

Yarl's Wood is one of 11 centers Britain uses to detain asylum seekers while they wait to be sent home or have their cases examined.

But he also claimed that they highlighted a failed policy of detaining asylum seekers.

The practice of detaining asylum-seekers alongside sentenced prisoners in Northern Ireland has been condemned by the SDLP.

The cost of detaining asylum seekers in Australia's Nauru and Manus Island detention centres is set to blowout.

The Guardian has published the only public photographs of conditions for detained asylum seekers on board the Ocean Protector.

Grouping the contracts by offshore and onshore facilities demonstrates the increased expense associated with detaining asylum seekers outside Australia.

But the PNG government ordered the centre's closure after the supreme court ruled last year detaining asylum seekers was unconstitutional.

The world's only research institute specialising in international refugee law says Australia should stop detaining asylum seekers on Pacific Islands.