Border Force accused of preventing church baptism of baby born in detention

Family members and Catholic priest say detained woman not given permission to take seven-month-old to church

Australian Border Force is preventing a baby who was born in immigration detention and is still there seven months later from being baptised in a church, according to the family and a Catholic priest.

It is the latest in what supporters claim is exceptional treatment of Huyen Tran and her seven-month-old daughter, Isabella, who was born into detention in Melbourne, and comes as new details emerge about an attempt to deport Tran while she was seven months pregnant.

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