Tamil Asylum Seekers

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  Failed Asylum Seekers Safe To Return Home: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Wickremesinghe

  Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Wednesday that failed asylum seekers held in Australian-run detention centres in the South Pacific will not face prosecution or harm if they return home.

• Australia to Ship Tamil Asylum Seekers to its Mainland

  Australia will transfer 157 Tamil asylum seekers it has been holding at sea for nearly a month to a mainland detention centre, the immigration minister said on Friday, in an apparent setback for the government's policies.

• Australia to Ship Tamil Asylum Seekers to Its Mainland: Report

  Australia will transfer 157 Tamil asylum seekers it has been holding at sea for nearly a month to a mainland detention centre, a government source told Reuters on Friday, in a setback for Prime Minister Tony Abbott's tough refugee policies.

• Australian Minister Under Fire for Not Meeting Tamil Groups During Sri Lanka Trip

  A Tamil group criticised Australia's immigration minister on Thursday for visiting northern Sri Lanka without meeting Tamil leaders, days after Australia returned a boat of asylum seekers, including Tamils, under its hardline border security policy.

• British court blocks Sri Lankan Tamil deportations

  A group of failed Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers have won the right to stay in the UK after the high court in London blocked their deportation scheduled for today.

• Canadian Navy boards ship with suspected LTTE members

  Canadian security officials boarded a cargo ship on Thursday carrying hundreds of Tamil asylum seekers from Sri Lanka, including some people Canada has said may be terrorists.Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said 490 are on board and said the vessel MV Sun Sea has declared them to be refugees. But he said the government has concerns that there may ...