One week deadline to repatriate Manus refugee body
PNG Immigration have given refugees on Manus Island one week to make arrangements to send the body of 33 year-old Pakistan refugee Kamil Hussain,...
“Why are we forgotten?”: Curtin hunger strikers
Eleven Sinhalese asylum seekers have entered their third day of hunger strike at the Curtin detention centre.
The eleven are also sleeping outside their rooms...
Vigil protest at Omid Masoumali inquest, killed by detention on Nauru
Omid Masoumali, an Iranian refugee on Nauru set himself on fire on 27 April, 2016. He needed immediate specialist attention but it took 31...
Another Nauru hunger striker hospitalised after 28 days; Omid 52 days on hunger strike
Jamal, a 35 year-old Ahwazi Iranian asylum seeker on Nauru has been taken from the detention camp to the Nauru hospital this (Sunday) morning.
Jamal...
Nauru refugees face COVID and cost of living crisis; More COVID in MITA
Three refugees, one Pakistani and two others, have been hospitalised as a serious COVID outbreak hits Nauru.
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...
Morrison’s hiding the truth about detention protest. Abbott guilty of refugee war crimes
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison told a media conference that the protest on Christmas Island was “under control”.
Communication with asylum seekers on Christmas Island is...
Manus asylum seeker in Bomana starts hunger strike after delays from PNG Supreme Court
A Bangladeshi asylum seeker, Helal, 31, with a wife and three-year-old son on Manus Island, has begun a hunger strike in Bomana prison where...
Refugee activists deported from Indonesia
Two Australian refugee activists detained and questioned by Indonesian
police in Merak have been deported by Indonesian immigration authorities,
will arrive in Australia on Saturday...
AFP IN BRUTAL CRACKDOWN ON CHRISTMAS ISLAND
Australian Federal Police (AFP) have staged early morning raids on the rooms of asylum seekers in several compounds of the main detention centre on...
