SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Angry asylum-seekers torched an immigration detention centre in Sydney yesterday, burning part of it to the ground after Australian authorities denied some of their requests for refuge, local media reported.
No one was injured in the incident, immigration authorities said, but it marks one of the most serious eruptions of unrest among asylum-seekers in Australia, where the government’s policy of indefinite detention is a hot political issue.
Dozens of asylum-seekers at the Villawood immigration detention centre, which houses many of those whose requests for refuge have been
