Chinese centenarian faces detention in Australian center

Posted by Court on March 5, 2005 09:19 AM Brisbane Time Category: Oz in the News

Chinese centenarian faces detention in Australian center

A 104-year-old Chinese woman could live out her days behind razor wires in a notorious Austra-lian immigration detention center, her attorney said yesterday.
The Immigration Department has denied a visa to Hu Cuiyu, who came to Australia on a 12-month visitors visa in 1995 to see her adopted daughter Motoko Otani. Airlines denied her a ticket to return to her home in Xinjiang Province on the grounds that she was too old and frail for the rigors of airline travel.

Lawyer Julian Burnside said that after being declared an unlawful non-citizen, Hu could be taken into custody.

From Chinese centenarian faces detention in Australian center

Posted by Court on March 5, 2005 09:19 AM Brisbane Time
Category: Oz in the News

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