Nauru bans unsympathetic Danish MPs from detention centre visit

By Nicole Hasham
Updated August 31 2016 - 5:08pm, first published 8:56am
The fact-finding mission was designed to scrutinise the Nauru detention centre. Photo: Angela Wylie
The fact-finding mission was designed to scrutinise the Nauru detention centre. Photo: Angela Wylie
Ms Schmidt-Nielsen said it was "deeply undemocratic" for a government to cherry-pick which foreign MPs were allowed to visit Nauru. Photo: Angela Wylie
Ms Schmidt-Nielsen said it was "deeply undemocratic" for a government to cherry-pick which foreign MPs were allowed to visit Nauru. Photo: Angela Wylie

A delegation of Danish politicians has cancelled a planned visit to Nauru after the island's government barred two MPs critical of Australia's immigration regime and one with a Muslim background who was born in Syria.

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