18 Jan 2019

NZers in Perth detention centre may be hunger striking

From Summer Report, 8:10 am on 18 January 2019

An Australian refugee advocate says up to sixty New Zealanders in the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre near Perth may have gone on hunger strike. Ian Rintoul says a group of men at another centre, Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation, or MITA, were earlier also refusing food, but have now ended their protest.

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