Protest at High Court offshore detention hearing, Manus Island asylum seekers unsafe as PNG...
The Refugee Action Coalition has called a protest at the Sydney Law Courts Building in Macquarie Street, for 9.00am Friday, 9 May.
The protest will...
Cover-up and neglect: visa delay killed Hamid Kahazaie: Morrison must resign; inquiry now
The shocking revelations from leaked IHMS reports on the treatment of Hamid Kahazaie show the scale of medical negligence and departmental culpability in his...
Hunger strike over detention visit restrictions continues
Around 160 detainees at Villawood in Sydney are continuing their hunger strike – now in its fourth day. (Thursday, 18 Jan), over the draconian...
DESPERATE REFUGEES’ PLEA FROM BEHIND THE WIRE AT DARWIN AIRPORT LODGE
Numerous notes pushed through the wire, and messages crushed into paper balls thrown over the fence greeted around 50 refugee protesters at Darwin’s Airport...
Community anger at asylum seekers abrupt shift from Villawood
Up to 82 asylum seekers at Villawood detention centre in Sydney have been told they are to be shifted from to Curtin and other...
Manus petition handed to Chief Justice of PNG Supreme Court
A petition signed by 368 Manus asylum seekers and refugees has been handed to the office of the Chief Justice of the PNG Supreme...
Tensions high on Manus ahead of transfer deadline
Extra police, some believed to have been brought from Rabaul, have been patrolling the perimeters of the detention compounds on Manus Island ahead of...
Nauru mass hunger strike enters its third day
The hunger strike by asylum seekers has entered its third day still with around 300 people not eating. By midday Saturday, a total of...
Refugee groups welcome Morrison’s admission that Sri Lanka and Afghanistan are unsafe
Refugee groups have welcomed Immigration Minister Scott Morrison’s recognition that Sri Lanka and Afghanistan are unsafe.
Speaking to Chris Uhlmann on the ABC’s AM program...
Two bashed Manus refugees finally released after 36 hours
Two Iranian refugees, Mehdi (26) and Mohammad (28), arrested and bashed by up to 10 PNG police and immigration officers on New Year’s eve...
