Baby Asha released from hospital, but may still return to offshore detention

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The child, identified using the pseudonym "Baby Asha," is one of 267 asylum seekers, 37 of them babies, who the government has proposed moving from mainland Australia to Nauru - the Pacific island that hosts one of Australia's offshore immigration processing camps.

Despite allowing the move to community detention, Australia's Immigration Minister Peter Dutton did not offer Baby Asha's family or their supporters much hope.

"We will make an assessment case by case whether or not it is safe for the family to live in the community. We have made that decision in relation to 83 people already and baby Asha's family are the next in that process."

Baby Asha and her family came to Australia for medical care after she was burnt in an accident on Nauru.

On February 14, the hospital announced that it would not release Baby Asha until "a suitable home environment is identified." Refugee advocates and medical professionals have deemed the conditions on Nauru inhumane and traumatic for the children housed there, as well as their families.

As news spread about the hospital's stand, crowds gathered to hold 24-hour vigils calling for the government to allow Baby Asha and her family, as well as other asylum seekers, to remain in Australia.

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