Refugee protestors scale building with a banner
A group of pro-asylum seeker protestors have climbed to the top of Melbourne’s Channel Seven building and raised a banner claiming deporting refugees will lead to their ‘death’ and demanding Immigration Minister Peter Dutton be sacked.
The five protesters, from activist group Whistleblowers, Activists and Citizens Alliance, were aiming their message at the Border Force headquarters opposite the building.
Other group members unfurled a second banner outside the Border Force’s offices at Custom’s House in Melbourne demanding Australia immediately close all detention centres, Seven News reports.
Five male activists from the Whistleblowers, Activists and Citizens Alliance scaled Channel 7
The pro-refugee protestors are calling for the sacking of Immigration Minister Peter Dutton
The banner was aimed at the Border Force headquarters, located at Custom’s House opposite
A second group of activists held a protest banner on the street outside the Border Force office
Police then scaled the building and began discussions with the protestors, who remain on the roof.
Activist Sam Castro, who was banned from going near the Border Force headquarters after similar protests last month, said that the activists had resorted to the dangerous protest due to the failures of politicians and the legal system.
‘They (Border Force) want to operate out of Customs House without people knowing, this is where they controlled what happens on Manus and Nauru.’
Police climbed the building and the banner was taken down, but the refugee protesters remain
The protestors still on the roof are committed to staying there until their message is heard
‘We can’t rely on the politicians, nor on the legal system that has been effectively bypassed. It is up to us to act to stop business as usual until the government closes the camps and safely re-settles the people it has illegally detained and tortured.’
‘There will be no justice and no business as usual for the government and their private contractors, until the asylum seekers and refugees held as political prisoners in Australia’s immigration detention centres are safely resettled.’
She also stated that the five male protestors still on the roof were committed to staying there until their message was heard.
On their website, WACA state that they aim to, end indefinite detention of refugees, close all onshore and offshore concentration camps and prosecute Australian politicians for breaching the international human rights of asylum seekers.
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