TWELVE-DAY VILLAWOOD IRANIAN HUNGER STRIKE ENDS
Media release September 30, 2010
REFUGEE GROUP’S PROTEST CALLS FOR END TO MANDATORY DETENTION AND OFF-SHORE PROCESSING
The dry (ie not taking fluids) hunger strike by...
Nauru asylum seekers reject interviews; 30 more start hunger strike
Omid, 44 days on hunger strike, now self-harms
Nauru asylum seekers have renewed their hunger strike protest after rejecting the Nauru Foreign Minister’s proposal to...
AS EAST TIMOR VOTES NO, REFUGEE GROUPS CALL ON GILLARD TO SCRAP OFF SHOREÂ PROCESSING
Media Release, July 13 2010
Refugee groups have welcomed East Timor’s unanimous parliamentary vote to reject Julia Gillard’s proposal to site a regional mega-detention centre...
PNG police try to enter Foxtrot compound on Manus
The standoff on Manus Island over the closure of Foxtrot Compound has come to a head this morning.
Police have shut the gates of Foxtrot...
ANOTHER ASYLUM SEEKER ATTEMPTS SUICIDE AT DARWIN’S AIRPORT LODGE
A Tamil asylum seeker has been taken to hospital after attempting suicide by hanging in the early of hours of this morning, at the...
Nauruan police finally admit asylum seeker was attacked
Nauruan police have finally admitted that an Iranian asylum seeker was savagely attacked last Saturday night, 16 May.
The 23 year-old female Iranian asylum seeker...
Six more refugees leave from Manus for the US, but Trump ban still in...
Six Manus refugees left Port Moresby this morning, Tuesday 19 June, for the United States.
All single men, the refugees are Afghan, Pakistani and one...
Fears for Tamil asylum seekers – one disappears in Sri Lanka and Indonesian navy...
Media Release December 3
Refugee advocates are calling on the Australian government and the International Orgnaisation of Migration to urgently intervene to guarantee the safety...
Vietnamese asylum seekers hold Peaceful Hunger Strike
Around 350 Vietnamese asylum seekers in Yongah Hill detention centre (near Perth) held a 24 hour protest hunger strike on Friday, 6 September (photos...
Asylum seeker attempts suicide on Manus Island
A 23 year-old Iranian asylum seeker on Manus Island attempted suicide on 5 January.
The young man attempted to hang himself with bed sheets in...
