It has been a year since Baitul Mahabbah was launched, but what was intended as a 'transitional centre for displaced children before repatriation' seems to have become a permanent fixture for them. Photo: Pixabay
A coalition of 21 human rights organisations and activists – collectively known as the End Child Detention Network (EDN) – raises concern that children at the Baitul Mahabbah immigration detention centre are still being detained a year after its launch, and urges that they are released to community-based alternatives.
They say that what was intended as a “transitional centre for displaced children before repatriation” seems to have become a permanent fixture with no end to detention in sight.
