Shooting breaks out on Manus – Refugees fear for their lives
There are reports that shooting has broken out between the PNG police and locals on the navy base after locals began attacking the detention...
MORE TEAR GAS AND FIRES ON CHRISTMAS ISLAND
Media Release 18 March, 2011
Police have used a stronger version of tear gas that has badly affected protesters inside the Christmas Island detention centre...
Manus detainees call for end to forced relocation as community tensions mount
More than 500 detainees at Manus Island have written to the PNG authorities (text below, written pages here and extract of signatures here) calling...
Don’t deport to Afghanistan – fourth Hazara asylum seeker at risk
Last minute legal efforts are being made in Perth to seek an injunction to prevent the Immigration department from forcibly removing a 23 year-old...
AFTER TWO YEARS, FIRST MERAK TAMIL REFUGEES TO COME TO AUSTRALIA
Tamil refugees from the boat stranded in Merak, Indonesia in 2009 after being stopped at the request of then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, have...
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...
Children and families out of detention? – not really!
The government announcement that children and families are to be released from mainland immigration detention is deceptive, selective and half-hearted according to the Refugee...
Nauru crisis continues – 13 collapse, three in hospital
More than 30 people remain on hunger strike on Nauru, but the heat and conditions are taking toll.
Two more of the hunger strikers have...
Delta compound under attack
Around 4.30pm , Manus time, Delta Compound, the Manus Island detention centre that has been deprived of water for 24 hours has been attacked...
ROOF TOP PROTEST AT DARWIN DETENTION CENTRE – 12 NOON, THURSDAY
Asylum seekers at Darwin detention will stage a roof top protest beginning at 12 noon Darwin time.
The protest is an escalation of the daily...
