Nauru search rule changes makes sexual harassment official
Reports of women asylum seekers and refugees being sexually harassed while being searched on their way into RPC3, the camp accommodating families and...
TEN ASYLUM SEEKER FAMILIES AT LEONORA ON HUNGERÂ STRIKE
Media Release October 22, 2010
The parents of ten families at the Leonora detention centre are on hunger strike.
The families are believed to be Kurdish,...
West Papuan asylum seekers flown to Port Moresby
Refugee groups are concerned for the welfare and security of seven West Papuan asylum seekers flown overnight from Horn Island to Port Moresby.
The seven...
Passengers’ protest stops deportation of Chinese asylum seeker
Seven passengers stood up on an Air China flight to stop a Chinese asylum seeker being deported late last Friday night.
Wei Lin, a 33...
PNG supreme court challenge to manus island detention centre
This morning (Wednesday 18 March), 9.30am, the Supreme Court, Port Moresby, will hold its first directions hearing in a new challenge to the Manus...
DARWIN ASYLUM SEEKERS REJECTD. REFUGEE GROUPS CONDEMN IMMIGRATION MINISTER’S CRUEL HOAX
Media Release, May 6, 2010
As asylum seekers in Darwin detention centre received rejections from their first refugee assessment, refugee groups today condemned the Immigration...
Fifth group of refugees leave Nauru for the US
The fifth group of refugees will leave Nauru today (Sunday, 4 March) to be resettled in the US.
The group of 29 refugees (21 adults...
Another Manus asylum seeker sets himself on fire
A 31-year-old Indian asylum seeker has set fire to himself and his room at the Hillside Compound on Manus Island, around 1.00 pm today...
SERCO BANS DETENTION VISITS AS REFUGEE ACTIVISTS CONVERGE ON AUSTRALIA’S DETENTION CAPITAL
Refugee activists have condemned Serco and the Immigration department’s ban on visits to Darwin’s detention centres over the Easter weekend.
Even before protests were scheduled...
Manus witch-hunt fails as hunger strike continues into the tenth day
Despite witch-hunts, blacklists, and the arrest of scores of asylum seekers, over 700 asylum seekers remain on hunger strike.
Transfield and the Immigration Department have...
