Submission: Wrongful detention of Australian citizens overseas

17 September 2024

Amnesty International Australia has made a submission to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Reference Committee regarding the wrongful detention of Australian citizens overseas.

Under our core value of international solidarity Amnesty advocates for the rights of all people who are unjustly detained, including non-nationals. Thus, Amnesty has called on the Committee and the Australian Government in general to broaden the scope of its work against "hostage diplomacy" to ending arbitrary detention in general, including for nationals of the detaining state.

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