Today, Australian police working for the department of immigration tried to kidnap a baby from a hospital to take it back to an island dungeon. Doctors have refused to release her from the hospital because everyone knows the detention facility is conducive to abuse; the deal is that babies will only be released into a safe home. So the police tried to just take her out.
A bunch of people have been holding a vigil in front of the hospital for days, and many more joined them to jump up and down in protest and the cops backed down ... for now.
A reminder of background:
My country routinely locks up refugees, illegally, in another very small island country, without charge, for years. They're kept in camps without adequate services - water, medical, shade, mosquito netting - where they're often raped by camp guards or other prisoners, or assaulted by the islanders who hate them. Journalists are not allowed in. The government last year deported some aid workers for supposedly leaking evidence of the bad conditions - which they hadn't. The government was also criticised by a commission of inquiry run by a bipartisan lawyer for keeping children in these conditions for years, at which point the respected public servant was personally denounced as a liar and a hack, without evidence. This was taken seriously by the press. Australia tows back refugee boats over open seas, safe or not; sometimes they force refugees onto small safety boats and drop them near Indonesia. We've also paid people smugglers to take refugees back to Indonesia, several times, illegally according to the UN. Government also was forced to allow a rape victim to get an abortion, and to fly to mainland Australia to do so, only to deport her back when she delayed immediately getting the procedure to get a counseling and so on. The minister lied that she had refused an abortion, which he knew to be untrue. He said she was playing the country for mugs, which he knew to be untrue. A previous minister, after his concentration camp was stormed by angry locals, including the local police, leading to the death of one refugee and the injury of several others, said it was the refugees fault for going outside the wire, which he knew they hadn't. He tried to stymie attempts to prosecute some offenders, intimidating some witnesses into not testifying. That's the community - a few thousand strong and quite poor - that refugees are expected to all be resettled in; Australia has totally abrogated its responsibility to assist any of these refugees. The former minister was recently promoted.