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Immigration detention doctors challenge Border Force Act’s secrecy clause in court
Section 42 carries a two-year jail term for anyone who makes an ‘unauthorised disclosure’ about conditions in the camps..
Doctors working in immigration detention are challenging the government’s contentious Border Force Act in the high court for their right to speak out publicly on behalf of the refugees and asylum seekers they treat…