As deadline looms for Merak boat, Tamils win speedy processing but refugee groups concerned...
Media Release April 13, 2010
While the Australian government imposes a three-month delay on visa processing, the 200 Tamil asylum seekers on the boat at...
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...
COVID outbreak grips Villawood detention centre
There is every indication from inside the Villawood detention centre that the Covid outbreak remains out of control among residents and staff.
Neither staff nor...
CURTIN ASYLUM SEEKERS HOLD PROTEST AT HAZARA KILLINGS IN QUETTA
NEITHER PAKISTAN NOR AFGHANISTAN IS SAFE FOR HAZARAS
Yesterday (Thursday 21 September), at 3.30pm, more than 400 mostly Hazara asylum seekers staged a peaceful protest...
End the turnbacks, let asylum boats land
The second asylum boat turn back to Sri Lanka under the Albanese Labor government has highlighted the fundamental breach of human rights involved in such turnbacks.Â
Home Affairs faces criminal charges alleging health neglect in Immigration detention
On Tuesday 15 March, a Sydney Local Court magistrate is expected to set down a hearing date for the charges, laid in March last...
Sydney protests: Free Ranjini: Free all the ASIO negative refugees
Two protests in Sydney on Friday 10 May will call for the release of Ranjini (and her children) and the release of all the...
Manus refugee suicides in Brisbane, offshore detention claims another victim
A 32-year-old mentally-distressed Afghan refugee, Sayed Mirwais Rohani, has committed suicide in Brisbane. The Afghan doctor jumped to his death from the 22nd floor...
Nauru legal fiasco: Refugee groups call for charged asylum seekers to be brought to...
“The fiasco engulfing the Nauru legal system has serious implications for the asylum seekers still facing charges following the so-called riot on Nauru on...
Seven refugees leave Nauru for US resettlement
Seven refugees (from Iran, Sudan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka) will leave Nauru today (Wednesday 10 July), for resettlement in the US. This brings the...
