Is Europe mulling torture in dealing with migrants?

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott had the gall to suggest that his policy, known as Operation Sovereign Borders, is “an object lesson in how to do the right thing by everyone, including the poor misguided people who for all sorts of reasons want a better life but who very often end up dead if they succumb to the lure of people smugglers”. In reality his government’s policy of holding people arriving by boat in detention centres on the Pacific island of Nauru and on Manus off Papua New Guinea has been criticised by the United Nations Human Rights Council for violating the convention against torture. The hypocrisy of the man knows no bounds!