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High Court to decide on asylum seeker detentions

Home Affairs argues asylum seekers who entered country illegally can be detained

Anti-immigrant vigilantes harassing asylum seekers at the Durban Home Affairs office on 6 October. Archive photo: Joseph Bracken

A full bench of the Gauteng High Court will hear argument on Thursday about how to apply a July Constitutional Court ruling.
Two judges had handed down conflicting decisions over whether immigrants who say they want to apply for asylum may be detained.
Home Affairs has admitted it lacks the capacity to process asylum applications, but maintains that asylum seekers who have not yet formally applied for asylum can lawfully be detained.
Refugee organisations argue that detaining asylum seekers breaks the law.

The Department of Home Affairs has doubled down on its position that asylum seekers who have not yet applied for…

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