Seven month standoff ends as Merak asylum seekers forced off boat. Resettlement ball now...
Media Release, April 19, 2010
Indonesian police and navy personnel this afternoon Jakarta time have acted to force almost 200 Tamil asylum seekers off their...
GOVERNMENT USING DODGY DOCUMENTS TO DEPORT TO DANGER
Media release July 28, 2010
Refugee groups are horrified that the government intends to use shonky travel documents to remove a 32 year old Sudanese...
Charges against Christmas Island asylum seekers are vindictive
Media Release January 20, 2010
Refugee advocates have condemned the move by the Australian Federal Police to charge 12 Christmas Island detainees with offences arising...
Refugee advocates call for independent inquiry into Manus death
Refugee advocates are deeply concerned at PNG police statements that they have ruled out "foul play" in regard to the death of Hamed.
"It is...
Rooftop protest continues on Christmas Island
Two Iranian asylum seekers have spent a second night on the roof of the Green 1 compound inside the Christmas Island detention centre. (The...
AS GILLARD MORPHS INTO HOWARD, REFUGEE PROTEST: “RETURN OF THE LIBERAL DEAD”
The Refugee Action Coalition is holding a “zombie” protest at the Sydney Department of Immigration offices, 22 Lee Street, City, beginning 12.30pm Friday 13...
HANDCUFFED REFUGEES BEING DENIED HUMAN RIGHTS
Six long term immigration detainees, four refugees and two asylum seekers, being flown from Christmas Island to Villawood on Sunday morning have been told...
VILLAWOOD TAMILS’ CONDITION WORSENS ON SEVENTH DAY OF DRY HUNGER STRIKE
Media Release, March 8 2011
After seven days of a dry (ie not taking water or food) the condition of three Tamil refugees at Villawood...
No advantage scrapped – Refugee processing to start on Nauru
The Nauru Director of the Department of Immigration has told a meeting of asylum seekers in the Nauru detention camp that their refugee assessments...
SECOND REPORT SAYS SRI LANKA IS UNSAFE
Media release May 18, 2010
REFUGEE GROUPS CALL FOR END OF VISA FREEZE AND TO STOP TAMIL DEPORTATIONS
The second report in less than a month...
