FILE PHOTO: Refugee advocates hold signs as they protest against the detention of asylum seekers being held at Australian-run offshore detention centers located on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, and the South-Pacific island of Nauru, in central Sydney, Australia, August 31, 2017. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo
GENEVA/SYDNEY (Reuters) - A U.N. committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum seekers, including minors, on the remote Pacific island of Nauru even after they were granted refugee status, it said in a statement on Thursday.
Under Australia's tough immigration policies, those attempting to reach the country by boat have been sent to detention centres - including on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru - for so-called "offshore processing" since 2013. Such facilities have previously drawn scrutiny from rights groups.
