Manus refugee wins international human rights award
Abdul Aziz Muhamat, a Sudanese refugee unlawfully held for over five years on Manus Island, has won the prestigious Martin Ennals Award, presented in...
Refugee advocates welcome High Court injunction
Last minute legal action in the High Court has resulted in a temporary injunction preventing the removal of an Afghan asylum seeker to Kabul.
A...
Refugee advocates fear for Iranians facing deportation
In the early hours of Sunday morning, 19 January, at the Wickham Point Immigration Detention Centre near Darwin, Serco guards raided the rooms of...
Hunger strike against prison conditions in Melbourne detention; video footage exposes guard thuggery
Around 200 detainees in MITA North, the new high security compound inside the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA), have begun a hunger strike in...
Ambulance called to collapsed ASIO negative hunger strikers
An ambulance was called to the MITA detention centre this afternoon (Wednesday) after five of the hunger-striking refugees fainted.
The ambulance officers indicated that they...
Nauru legal fiasco: Refugee groups call for charged asylum seekers to be brought to...
“The fiasco engulfing the Nauru legal system has serious implications for the asylum seekers still facing charges following the so-called riot on Nauru on...
Manus Island not calm – asylum seekers declare hunger strike will not stop, two...
Asylum seekers in Foxtrot Compound have issued a letter (transcript below, with photos of letter and signatures) declaring that their hunger strike protest will...
Nauru government is covering up rape cases and intimidating Nauru women
The Refugee Action Coalition has condemned the Nauru government’s public release of a Nauruan police brief of a rape case highlighted on the ABC’s...
No turnbacks: Let the Vietnamese asylum seekers land
The Refugee Action Coalition has called on the Coalition government to bring the Vietnamese asylum seekers off Dampier to shore and allow them to...
Mental health crisis on Manus Island, Labor must back Phelps’ bill
There are now almost daily suicide attempts among refugees on Manus Island, and no medical facilities to cope with the crisis.
The small Pacific...
