Manus Paladin security workers strike
Paladin security workers on Manus Island have declared a strike across all three detention compounds on the island. The security posts at Hillside, West...
Government maintains Manus farce as asylum seeker attempts to set himself alight
A 28 year-old Iranian asylum seeker in Mike Compound in the Manus Island detention centre attempted to set himself alight on Friday night (30...
Nauru asylum seekers hunger strike after guard brutality leaves six unconscious
A brutal response by security guards at the Nauru detention centre to a protest, yesterday afternoon, by recently arrived asylum seekers, left six of...
REFUGEE ADVOCATES WELCOME CHILDREN OUT OF DETENTION ANNOUNCEMENT BUT MANDATORY DETENTION HAS TOÂ GO
Media Release, 16 October 2010
Refugee groups have welcomed statements from the Immigration Minister that asylum seekers’ families and children are to be released from...
ADVERSE SECURITY REFUGEES LODGE HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLAINT WITH GENEVA UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
In a significant international challenge to their detention, thirty-nine refugees who have been refused visas because of ASIO adverse security findings will lodge a...
Nauru asylum seeker attempts suicide – Minister says no processing for up to a...
The Refugee Action Coalition has received information from Nauru that an Iranian asylum seeker attempted suicide this morning, Thursday, 11 October.
The man was “turning...
FIRST REPORTED INSTANCE OF SELF HARM AT WICKHAM POINT
REFUGEE PROTESTERS TARGET DARWIN'S BIGGEST DETENTION CENTRE
Reliable reports from inside the Wickham Point detention centre indicate that an asylum seeker has been hospitalised following...
Detention protest spreads nationally
Hundreds of immigration detainees in detention centres across the country have begun a hunger strike protest this morning, Monday 21 January.
Detainees in the Villawood,...
Almost 300 more asylum seekers join PNG constitutional challenge to Manus detention
PNG lawyer, Ben Lomai, will today (Friday, 26 February) file another 287 submissions from Manus Island asylum seekers to join them to a PNG...
DARWIN DETENTION CENTRE ON THE EDGE – GROWING PROTESTS AMID ATTEMPTED SUICIDES
Frustration is again boiling over in the Darwin detention centre. There have been six attempted suicides in the last two days – five on...
