Grave fears for life of Iranian asylum seeker: shocking callous Facebook comment reveals Serco...
Grave fears are held for the life on Iranian asylum seeker, Saeed Hassan Loo, who is believed to have been refusing fluids for the past few days of his 40-day hunger strike and is...
Mothers attempt suicide as conditions deteriorate on Christmas Island
Up to ten mothers in the family camp have attempted suicide in the last two days on Christmas Island – some by hanging, some by drinking concoctions of liquids.
Scores of police and Serco officers...
Advocates call for detention centre visits to resume
Refugee supporters are calling for Border Force to end visiting restrictions at detention centres and hotel-prisons and immediately reinstate detention visiting.
Despite declaring detention centres to be a high COVID risk environment, Border Force refused...
LEGAL RIGHTS IGNORED AS FEDERAL POLICE INTERROGATE ASYLUM SEEKERS
Media Release, 23 March 2011
Refugee supporters and lawyers are extremely concerned that Federal Police are ignoring the legal rights of asylum seekers as they press on with interrogations of asylum seekers.
Around 150 asylum seekers...
Extreme vetting, extreme confusion: Turnbull must say no to Trump’s ban
The White House statement that the US resettlement deal with Australia is still “under consideration” has blown Malcolm Turnbull’s re-assurances about the deal out of the water.
Turnbull’s report of his phone call with...
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 Christmas Island.
A number of asylum seekers have been beaten in...
Manus mental health crisis as refugee swallows razor blades
Refugee advocates have called for urgent medical attention for a 46-year-old Iraqi refugee who has been hospitalised in Port Moresby after swallowing razor blades.
The refugee has swallowed a total of eight blades –...
HUNGER STRIKE SPREADS IN DARWIN DETENTION CENTRE
Up to 90 asylum seekers and refugees in the Darwin detention have joined a hunger strike in protest at the long delays in processing.
The hunger strike that began in conjunction with yesterday’s (ie Wednesday...
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 for the PNG government to provide safe resettling third countries,...
Peter Dutton’s misleading statements on Abyan
Everyone remembers when Scott Morrison declared that Reza Barati was killed ‘outside the wire’ at the Manus Island detention centre.
It was a low point of the former Minister’s career.
Peter Dutton should have paid more...
