Leonora Immigration Detention Center

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Camp site in July 2012

The Leonora Immigration Detention Center (dt .: Scherger immigration detention center ) in the small town of Leonora and about 830 kilometers north of Perth in the Australian state of Western Australia was until February 2014 June 2010 by the British security firm Serco -run internment camp for boat people .

Internment camp

The Leonora Immigration Detention Center was originally a shelter for miners. The institution was set up for families with asylum seekers with children in June 2010 and closed in February 2014. It was a closed device in Australia in accordance with the practiced immigration and asylum policy of Australia (as of 2018) alternative place of detention (dt .: Alternative immigration detention accommodation ) was called.

Room for inmates (July 2012)

The warehouse with a capacity for 210 people was leased. It was in an environment that is characterized by high temperatures, a dry landscape and heavy dust. The Australian Human Rights Commission , which visited the camp in late 2010, recommended making the camp more homely. There should be green areas, gardens, paved or lawn paths. The buildings in which the families were accommodated are not mobile, but have the character of living containers. Only a few trees donate damage.

Camp inmates

The camp inmates could only leave the area under the supervision of the supervisory staff of the private, British service organization Serco, which operates the camp on behalf of the Australian government. Although 40 people in the camp had already received a positive decision on their asylum application at the time, they were still in the camp at the end of 2010. Some of them had received the notice more than 4 months ago.

The asylum seekers were offered sewing, ironing, artistic and craft design, and occasionally cooking with dishes from their homeland. There was an open space for sporting activities between the living containers. A dining room offered space for around 200 people. Parents criticized that there was hardly any child-friendly food. There was also a reading room, but no newspapers and no foreign language literature. English-language classes for adults were held in the camp.

The inmates mainly criticized the fact that they could not move freely. Parents miss a children's playground that is safe. In December 2010, the Human Rights Commission visited the facility for three days. At that time, 202 people were imprisoned, 69 men, 67 women, 35 boys and 31 girls. There were 52 people from Iran , 50 of them from Afghanistan , 47 from Sri Lanka , 12 from Iraq and 39 stateless persons. All camp inmates had been transferred from the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Center at the time of the commission's visit . Once a week a doctor visited the camp for 3 hours, there was no psychological support. The children of school age were able to attend a local school.

As of December 2010, a total of 6,329 people were in Australian immigration detention, including 981 children. Of these detainees, more than 40 percent had been in the camps for more than six months and more than 200 had been in the camps for more than 12 months.

closure

In January 2014, the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Scott Morrison ( Liberal Party of Australia ) announced that this and three other internment camps would be closed. These were the Port Augusta Immigration Detention Center in South Australia , Scherger Immigration Detention Center in Queensland and the Pontville Immigration Detention Center in Tasmania , which had been empty since September 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map of Detention Facilities from March 25, 2011, on hillscircleoffriends.org. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  2. ↑ Detention Logs. Glossary , at detentionlogs.com.au. Retrieved August 8, 2018
  3. ↑ `` Shire of Leonora disappointed over Government decision to close immigration detention center '' from January 14, 2014, on abc.net.au. Retrieved August 8, 2018
  4. ↑ 2011 Immigration detention in Leonora , p. 7, from 2011, on humanrights-gov.au. Retrieved on August 8, 2018-
  5. ↑ a b 2011 Immigration detention in Leonora , p. 3, from 2011, on humanrights-gov.au. Retrieved on August 8, 2018-
  6. ↑ 2011 Immigration detention in Leonora , p. 9. of 2011, on humanrights-gov.au. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  7. ↑ 2011 Immigration detention in Leonora , p. 15. of 2011, on humanrights-gov.au. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  8. ↑ 2011 Immigration detention in Leonora , p. 10. of 2011, on humanrights-gov.au. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  9. ↑ 2011 Immigration detention in Leonora , p. 8 of 2011, on humanrights-gov.au. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  10. ↑ 2011 Immigration detention in Leonora , p. 4. of 2011, on humanrights-gov.au. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  11. ↑ Andrew Greene: Immigration detention center closures set to save Government $ 88.8m , January 14, 2014, on abc.net.au. Retrieved August 9, 2018

Coordinates: 28 ° 52 ′ 44.4 ″  S , 121 ° 19 ′ 48 ″  E