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Rights Groups Slam Australian Plan To Transfer Criminals To Nauru

A beach in Ewa on the Pacific island of Nauru where Australia plans to send three violent foreign criminals as part of a resettlement deal (Credit: AFP)

Rights groups on Monday denounced an Australian plan to send three violent foreign criminals -- including a murderer -- to live on the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru.

Canberra said Sunday it had paid an undisclosed sum to Nauru -- population about 13,000 -- in return for it issuing 30-year visas to the trio, who lost their Australian visas due to criminal activity.

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