NOT GUILTY VERDICTS IN DARWIN: ANOTHER REASON TO INVESTIGATE THE FEDERAL POLICE AND SERCO
The Refugee Action Coalition is demanding an inquiry into the Federal Police’s role in the investigation of the assault and subsequent charging of two Burmese refugees, Habib and Basir, after a Darwin roof-top protest...
Twenty three refugees leave Nauru for the US
Twenty-three refugees flew from Nauru to the US today, Sunday 22 July.
The group includes two Rohingyan families, one couple with their three children; the other a father and his two sons. The...
Government siege tightens on Manus as last food announced
Refugee groups have called for the Australian government to end the siege of the Manus detention centre.
After ignoring a PNG Supreme Court ruling since April 2016, the government is resorting to depriving refugees and...
Nauru government evicts Médecins Sans Frontières from the island
The Nauru government has ended the role of Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders on the island.
MSF emailed various clients today Saturday, 6 October informing them that all MSF services finish today...
Manus Island claims another victim as asylum seeker declared brain dead. Manus detainees accuse...
A 24 year-old Iranian asylum seeker, Hamid Kehazaei, who was urgently medivacced from Manus Island to Brisbane on Wednesday, 27 August has been declared to be ‘brain dead’.
By the time Hamid was medivacced to...
Ahwazi Arab refugees protest in Canberra : Off shore processing and human rights in...
A group of around 50 Ahwazi Arab refugees are holding two protests in Canberra today, on Monday 24 September.
The protesters, travelling from Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne will hold a protest outside the Iranian...
VILLAWOOD TAMIL HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES
Media Release April 22, 2010
Nine Tamil asylum seekers are on their third day of a hunger strike protest against the threat of being deported to Sri Lanka. All of them have received letters stating...
ANOTHER VILLAWOOD SUICIDE DEMANDS FULL INQUIRY INTO DETENTION
Media release November 16, 2010
An Iraqi asylum seeker, Ahmad, is believed to have committed suicide at Villawood detention centre around midnight Monday night.
Detainees found the man hanging in a bathroom and took him...
Fifth group of refugees leave Nauru for the US
The fifth group of refugees will leave Nauru today (Sunday, 4 March) to be resettled in the US.
The group of 29 refugees (21 adults and 8 children) comprises four families (two Sri Lankan, one...
Julia Gillard brings shameful reminder of Tampa
Media Release Oct 15
“Julia Gillard’s claim that the Sri Lankan Tamils taken to Indonesia are Indonesia’s responsibility is a shameful reprise of the Tampa incident in 2001,” said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee...
