The Australian High Court has ruled that the Immigration Department mishandled the case of a Tamil refugee who was given a negative security assessment and is being kept in detention.
The asylum seeker, Ranjini, travelled to Australia by boat in 2010 whilst pregnant, fleeing Sri Lanka. She arrived on Christmas Island and was then taken to Sydney with her two sons aged 9 and 7, to be detained at the Villawood Detention Centre. There she gave birth to her third child.
The High Court ruling did not decide on Ranjini’s indefinite detention, but unanimously ruled that the immigration minister at the time failed to fully consider whether she could have applied for a protection visa.
Around 50 other refugees with negative security assessments also remain in indefinite detention.
See reports from ABC news here and the Sydney Morning Herald here.
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