Sit-in - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 01 May 2016 21:34:38 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Sit-in - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Aust church leaders avoid jail for refugee protest sit-in https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/05/03/aust-church-leaders-avoid-jail-refugee-protest-sit/ Mon, 02 May 2016 17:07:30 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=82336 A group of Perth church leaders who staged a sit-in in a cabinet minister's office to protest treatment of refugee children have avoided jail. The group refused to leave Australian justice minister Michael Keenan's office on February 20. At the Perth Magistrates Court last week, the protestors were given "spent" convictions for trespassing and were Read more

Aust church leaders avoid jail for refugee protest sit-in... Read more]]> A group of Perth church leaders who staged a sit-in in a cabinet minister's office to protest treatment of refugee children have avoided jail.

The group refused to leave Australian justice minister Michael Keenan's office on February 20.

At the Perth Magistrates Court last week, the protestors were given "spent" convictions for trespassing and were released on good behaviour bonds.

They were protesting a court decision, since overturned, to return 267 refugees, including Australian-born babies, to Nauru's immigration detention centre.

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