article_snippet.sent: The Australian Navy is allegedly in the process of returning up to 50 Vietnamese asylum seekers to to 50 Vietnamese asylum seekers home country, transporting the detainees in secret via a supply ship currently on stand-by off the coast of Vietnam.
article_snippet.sent: The HMAS Choules, which has previously been used to provide offshore accommodation to Manus Island detainees, has been employed by The Australian Navy to hand the Vietnamese nationals back to the Vietnamese nationals Communist government in an operation which could cost $2.8 million of tax payers money.
article_snippet.sent: It is understood that the asylum seekers were intercepted earlier in April, and are being returned through the port of Vung Tau, south of Ho Chi Minh City.
article_snippet.sent: The Australian Navy has allegedly returned up to 50 asylum seekers to Vietnam in a secret operation .
article_snippet.sent: Fairfax Media reported that a Department of Defence source revealed the HMAS Choules, a navy landing ship, was expected to arrive at Vung Tau on Friday evening or in the early hours of Saturday.
article_snippet.sent: In March, local Indonesian media reported that an orange lifeboat consistent with the style used by the Australian Navy and Customs to send asylum seekers back to asylum seekers boats had been located on a beach in Java, reported The West Australian.
highlights_snippet.sent: 50 Vietnamese asylum seekers are allegedly being returned to Vietnam .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Reports claim Australian vessel HMAS Choules transferred 50 Vietnamese asylum seekers on Friday .
  