Charges against Christmas Island asylum seekers are vindictive
Media Release January 20, 2010
Refugee advocates have condemned the move by the Australian Federal Police to charge 12 Christmas Island detainees with offences arising...
Deadline looms for West Papuan asylum seekers in Port Moresby
The seven West Papuans secretly returned to Port Moresby from Australia a week ago have been given until tomorrow, Thursday 10 October to make...
Minister’s bluster over Christmas Island legal case reveals unconcern with safety of life at...
Minister Morrison’s misleading and unfounded attacks on families of the SIEV 221 suing the Australian government reveal his complete lack of concern for saving...
Fourteen refugees fly from Nauru to US today
Fourteen more refugees, mostly single men – Rohingyan, Afghans, and Pakistanis – left Nauru this afternoon, Sunday 29 July, to be resettled in the...
Melbourne detention on COVID alert
IHMS staff tested all people detained in Bass 2 compound for Covid Friday night, just hours after Border Force declared that they were considered...
Christmas Island rooftop protest into its third day
The defiant rooftop protest on the Green 1 compound of the Christmas Island detention centre has entered its third day.
This morning (Monday 28 May)...
Three refugees injured as local attack Port Moresby hotel
A crowd of locals has attacked a Boroko hotel in the early hours of this morning (Wednesday 19 February) leaving three refugees injured and...
Nauru mass hunger strike enters its third day
The hunger strike by asylum seekers has entered its third day still with around 300 people not eating. By midday Saturday, a total of...
DARWIN TURNS TOXIC AS SELF-HARM/ATTEMPTED SUICIDE TOLL KEEPS RISING
Two serious self harm/suicide attempts in one day have rocked the Darwin detention centre.
On Monday, 17 October, two Kurdish asylum seekers both in their...
Nauru refugees petition against delays and exclusion from the US
Around 500 Nauruan refugees have signed a petition (Nauru resettlement petition) directed to Australian Border Force demanding a timetable for refugee resettlement; to be...
