Protest of detainees against the immigration laws of Australia.

At Australia’s one amongst the largest immigration detention centers, the detainees have declared hunger strike as a protest against the prevailing immigration laws.

In the early months of this year, the government gave his words that the asylum seekers would be kept as detainee as a “last resort”, but they are still not made free.

Advocates of refugees have informed that at the Villawood detention center, more than hundred detainees have denied eating anything as a support of the protest. Australia Immigration Department has come up with the comment that the figure of more than hundred is a mere exaggeration and that actually around 50 detainees are the part of such a protest.

This fire of protest stated from the largest mainland detention centers of Australia in Sydney. Refugee activists have reported that the asylum seekers started this protest and later the detainees who meet deportation joined it.

Ian Rintoul, a member of Refugee Action Coalition has reported that the detainees at Villawood detention center want to know the reason behind them being still in the custody.

Rintoul said that the minister promised to improve the condition relate to detention and that the detainees would be kept as the last resort. The minister also promised that he would arrange a community for the people who are in detention; so that they can stay in community until they do not get their visa. Nothing has taken shape until now, and people in detention are still facing the same situation and mental torture.

Earlier, the government said that compulsory detention would only be in case of people who have breached the conditions of visa many a times or people who seem to be threat to the security of nation or health of people.

Protesters from countries like China, Afghanistan and Bangladesh have earnestly requested the government to put an end to their state of imprisonment.

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission of Australia has said the situation prevailing in the Villawood is a disgrace and that it should be demolished.