Immigration department accused of intimidating refugee advocate

Department demanded through Twitter that advocate remove third-party post on her Facebook wall

The Department of Immigration and Border Protection has been accused of monitoring a refugee advocates social media and publicly intimidating her, after demanding through Twitter that she remove a third-party post on her Facebook wall.

Vanessa Powell, an advocate who attended protests outside Villawood detention centre in Sydney last Thursday, was tweeted three times in public by the department on Friday over an offensive remark directed at a staff member that was posted on her Facebook wall underneath a photograph of a coach transferring asylum seekers last Thursday.

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source Guardian