Amnesty International issues action alert for Nauruan refugee, Abyan
Amnesty International, London, has issued an urgent action alert, "Urging the Australian authorities to ensure Abyan’s health and safety by immediately transferring her to...
People power wins community detention for Asha: Now free all the 267
The Refugee Action Coalition welcomes the agreement to place baby Asha in community detention as a victory for people power and the “Let Them Stay” campaign...
Nauru bullying increases asylum seeker self-harm
An Afghan asylum seeker detained in the main single-men’s compound on Nauru has slashed himself after Nauruan guards being denied his requests to see...
PNG removes appeal rights for asylum seekers: more threatened with deportation
In what seems to be a knee-jerk response to the Supreme Court constitutional challenge to Manus Island, the Papua New Guinea Immigration department has...
Stop the deportations: urgent legal action as Darwin Tamil asylum seekers protest at screening...
Tamil asylum seekers at Wickham Point detention centre are staging a 24 hour hunger strike protest today in response to increasing numbers of Tamils...
HUNGER STRIKE WAS GOVERNMENT’S FAULT– DETAINEES TOLD THEIR CLAIMS WILL BE SPED UP
Media release January 21, 2011
“The Curtin hunger strike may be over but the issues are far from resolved,” says Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the...
Refugee advocates fear screened-out Geraldton asylum seekers being removed
Refugee advocates fear that a charter flight leaving Christmas Island today (around midday Christmas Island time) is removing Sri Lankan asylum seekers to Colombo.
“We...
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...
Forty-four transferred from Manus to Port Moresby, but refugee relocation is no solution
Forty-four refugees from two compounds (10 from West Haus and 34 from East Lorengau compound) on Manus Island are being transferred from Manus Island...
Nauru hunger strike enters fifth day – police charge two Iranians
The hunger strike by asylum seekers on Nauru is now in its fifth day, still with around 300 asylum seekers refusing food. The asylum...
