These ministerial referrals represent real people at risk of being tortured—something our government professes to find abhorrent. When the number of requests is doubling, and officials have admitted 95% get signed off, it's clear the system is broken.
The 95% figure refers to the entire spectrum of cases in which authorisation is sought—104 in total in 2022, 17 of which had a real risk of cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment (CIDT)—so it is unknown whether approval was given in individual cases.
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