Australia is negotiating with Iran to return more than...

Australia is negotiating with Iran to return more than 200 asylum seekers who have been refused refugee status in Australia.
Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said the Iranians would not be in danger. Anyone whose application for refugee status had been rejected was entitled to apply to him as minister.
"If we came to the view that somebody might be going back to be tortured or executed or something of that nature we wouldn't send them back."
Asked if any asylum seekers had been executed on return to their home countries Ruddock said that claim had often been made. "But there's been no evidence produced that this has happened."