The Australian government has ignored a request from the United Nations Human Rights Committee to release a Tamil family of four from immigration detention on Christmas Island.
Priya and Nadesalingam and their two children Kopika, four, and Tharnicaa, two, who were both born in Australia, have been fighting deportation to Sri Lanka since March 2018 when they were placed in a Melbourne detention centre after their parents’ visas expired.
In March, the Federal Government spent $185 million on re-opening the Christmas Island facility, which currently only hosts the Tamil family of four.
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