“A series of Australian governments that are guilty of crimes against humanity for forcibly transferring asylum seekers to a third country and detaining them indefinitely without trial.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Mr Wilkie's claim is an allegation of criminal conduct that is untested in a court of law. A number of communiques calling for Australian government officials to be investigated for crimes against humanity, as defined by the 1998 Rome Statute, have been submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague in 2014, including a request by Mr Wilkie in 2014. Lawyers and academics have also called on the court to investigate, but to date, no such investigation has been launched. And i...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Andrew Wilkie (Independent federal MP) made this claim around 2 April 2019. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 28 February 2019. Its rating was “Untested”.
Where the claim appeared
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This check was done by RMIT ABC Fact Check, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.