The ABC reports "the Edmund Rice Centre (ERC) has rejected an assertion made by the Immigration Minister that her department has been unable to follow-up claims that up to nine asylum seekers were killed after being deported to Afghanistan.
The Catholic human rights group says it investigated the fate of almost 200 failed Afghan asylum seekers who were detained on the Pacific Island of Nauru while their applications were processed in 2002.
Senator Amanda Vanstone says the centre has made similar claims before, but never in enough detail for her department to investigate.
ERC's Phil Glendenning says all relevant information has been passed onto the Minister's department."
The Government, in typical style, is in denial mode. Up is down and black is white and trust us, we're the government.
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