Australias detention centers, proof of a backward country

[gerryh]

Brutality allegations
Other former residents of the detention centres have complained of the treatment they received at the hands of staff.
The centres are run by private security firms, but ministers have insisted that there has been no truth to allegations of brutality.

Former residents have complained of the treatment they received at the hands of staff

There were also far darker allegations of child abuse at one of the centres, a row that is still rumbling on.
The Refugee Council for Australia has complained about the way the case has been handled.
But the protests about the physical conditions at the detention centres have been dwarfed by those concerned with the time that asylum applications have taken to process. Many complained that their applications were taking longer than six months to process.

BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | Australia's detention camps criticised

Detention Camps: Australia's Shameful Breach of UN Conventions

Australia: Immigration detention centres improve, but still more work to do — Asia Pacific Forum


The barbarism of a supposed modern country is unbeleivable.

 

[Spade]

Yes, unbelievable.

 

[ironsides]

Speaking of backward countries, Australia is sounding pretty good.

.
"When Israel demanded that the Swedish government's condemn the "blood libel against Jews," the Swedish foreign minister asserted pompously that Sweden has a free press. Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman then commented that press freedom does not include the right to lie and libel. He added "This is reminiscent of Sweden's stand during World War II.""

DEBKAfile - Israel and Sweden: An unnecessary diplomatic crisis

 

[strange]

i don't know if a backward country is the right answer. I think its probably a couple of bad apples that far-overreached their boundaries. Probably a lesson here to not privatize, public detention of criminals.