Mobile video footage reveals abuse by Villawood guards
Refugee advocates are calling for a full inquiry into an incident recorded on mobile phone footage inside Villawood detention centre revealing nine male guards...
Latest statement from Nauru asylum seekers
The statement below was issued by asylum seekers on Nauru following their protest yesterday (Sunday 29 Oct) afternoon.
ASYLUM SEEKERS IN NAURU
TO WHOM IT MAY...
Curtin asylum seekers petition Morrison for bridging visas
Sixty asylum seekers in Curtin detention centre have sent a letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Immigration Minister Scott Morrison appealing for the...
Second Nauru hunger striker hospitalised
A second hunger striker on Nauru was hospitalised yesterday, Saturday 17 November. The Iraqi man, who has been on hunger strike for eight days,...
REFUGEE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE AT MELBOURNE DETENTION CENTRE
A medical team is attending a Tamil refugee at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre in Broadmeadows this (Thursday) afternoon.
The Tamil refugee, who has...
Concerns for welfare of ASIO negative hunger strikers
After two days of their dry hunger strike protest, most of the 28 refugees staging their protest on the soccer field at the Melbourne...
Manus Island message to people of Australia
The Refugee Action Coalition has received the message below (and attached) signed by hundreds of asylum seekers in Delta and Fox compounds, also attached)...
Nauru protests escalate: breakout at family camp
Protests on Nauru have dramatically escalated in the last 24 hours.
Up to 600 people broke out of the family detention compound OPC 3 just...
SCHERGER DEATH DEMANDS FULL DETENTION INQUIRY; CURTIN PROTEST SPARKED BY SERCO GUARDS’ BRUTALITY
Media release, 18 March 2011
The sit-down protest by around 100 asylum seekers on Thursday afternoon in the Curtin detention centre was sparked by the...
Heartless Border Force denies Fariborz’s mother’s wishes
Australian Border Force authorities on Nauru have rejected Fariborz mother’s wishes that Fariborz’s body be sent to Australia for burial.
Fariborz’s mother wrote a plea...
