Scherger Immigration Detention Center

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Scherger military base

The Scherger Immigration Detention Center (dt .: Scherger immigration detention center ) 30 kilometers south of the city of Weipa and approximately 2,500 kilometers north of Brisbane in the Australian state of Queensland was until January 2014 in October 2010 by the British security firm Serco -run detention center.

Internment camp

In January 2010 the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Chris Bowen announced the construction of the camp for asylum seekers on a military site with an airport, 3000 m long runway and military infrastructure, which has existed since 1998. This airport does not stationed permanently combat flight associations and is therefore also in Australia Ghost Base (dt .: ghosts base called). Before the 2010 elections , the Scherger military base was protected by a 12-kilometer fence, which, according to the military, has nothing to do with the internment camp.

There are two other such military bases called Curtin at Derby and Learmonth at Exmouth . The Curtin Immigration Reception and Processing Center is known on the Curtin military base until 2008 .

Occupancy

300 men from the overcrowded Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Center , who were held there in immigration custody, were to be brought to the new camp . Bowen stated in January 2010 that the warehouse would only be operated temporarily and that it would be occupied for the first time in July 2010. After this announcement, the construction of the camp was denied several times by the government before the elections in August 2010. Shortly after the elections in October 2010, however, the occupancy took place.

Cases of medical abuse have been reported. On July 31, 2013, 345 male asylum seekers were registered in the Scherger detention center.

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 Detention Center in South Australia , Leonora Immigration Detention Center in Western Australia and the Pontville Immigration Detention Center in Tasmania , which had been empty since September 2013.

Camp name

The camp name goes back to the Australian Air Force General Sir Frederick Scherger , who temporarily served as Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Air Force during World War II and who developed into a staunch opponent of Australian nuclear armament after the end of the war.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mark Dott: 'Ghost' RAAF defense base Scherger a bare-bones facility , from September 18, 2010, on theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved August 5, 2018
  2. ^ Paul Farell: Not seen, not heard, often not reported - the harrowing stories of Australia's detainees , June 9, 2015, on theguardian.com. Retrieved August 5, 2018
  3. ↑ Immigration Detention and Community Statistics Summery , August 31, 2013. Retrieved August 5, 2018
  4. ↑ Scherger Immigrations Detention Center , September 23, 2010, at nautilus.org. Retrieved August 5, 2018
  5. ↑ Andrew Greene: Immigration detention center closures set to save Government $ 88.8m , January 14, 2014, on abc.net.au. Retrieved August 9, 2018

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