Australian asylum seeker policy is 'child abuse' - religious leaders

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian senator on Wednesday accused the government of trying to whitewash its hard-line asylum seeker policies by blocking access to a detention centre holding 157 Sri Lankan migrants recently held at sea by authorities for almost a month.

And a group of prominent Christian religious leaders on Wednesday accused Immigration Minister Scott Morrison of committing "state-sanctioned child abuse" through the government's tough border security measures.