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Tamil refugees make legal challenge to Australian security assessment.
Text of report by Radio Australia, international service of the government-funded ABC, on 20 January, from ABC Radio National's "PM" programme
[Presenter Stephen Long] Australia's spy agency ASIO is being challenged in the Federal Court over the ongoing detention of Sri Lankan refugees. Three Sri Lankans were rescued by the Oceanic Viking in 2009 and they have been in detention for more than a year. And even though they have been found to be refugees, they are being refused entry to Australia because ASIO considers them a security risk. Shane McLeod:
[McLeod] They've been found to be refugees but Australia is refusing to resettle the three Tamil asylum seekers and …
