Lawyers for Liberty urges govt to release detained migrant children

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Human rights NGO Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) has cried foul over the high number of children detained at immigration detention centres.It sought their release on human rights grounds as well as to reduce their risk of contracting Covid-19. Numerous immigration facilities have seen virus outbreaks due to their cramped conditions.In a statement today, Lawyers for Liberty coordinator Zaid Malek pointed to the Home Ministry’s recent revelation that 756 foreign children were in detention as of Oct 26.Of the number, 405 children were detained without their guardians, a bulk of them (326) from Myanmar.Zaid deemed such detention “inhumane” and questioned if any of the Myanmese children were Rohingya refugees.“It is unfathomable as to why the authorities deem it fit and proper to detain hundreds of migrant and refugee children, most of whom are detained without guardians, in overcrowded …