Nauruan refugee girls attacked at school
Three refugee high school girls were confronted by around 15 teenage Nauruan boys around 11.00am, last Friday (5 December) at their class room at...
Manus refugee wins international human rights award
Abdul Aziz Muhamat, a Sudanese refugee unlawfully held for over five years on Manus Island, has won the prestigious Martin Ennals Award, presented in...
Manus Island message to people of Australia
The Refugee Action Coalition has received the message below (and attached) signed by hundreds of asylum seekers in Delta and Fox compounds, also attached)...
Another suicide attempt in MITA detention centre
A 19-year-old Iraqi asylum seeker has attempted suicide in the MITA North compound of the Melbourne detention centre.
He was found by Ali, another detainee,...
Desperate PNG refugee attempts self-immolation after years of neglect
A 46-year-old Iranian refugee doused himself, and an office, in petrol yesterday morning threatening to set himself alight.
Nauruan refugee starts crane protest
An Iranian refugee, Reza Khestinzhad, (44 years old) has scaled the tallest crane on Nauru - on the construction site for refugee accommodation -...
Massive Manus protest joins Nauru day 56
Prisoners in all the compounds of Manus Island detention centre have staged a joint protest inside the detention centre.
Despite the rain, hundereds joined the...
Cover-up and neglect: visa delay killed Hamid Kahazaie: Morrison must resign; inquiry now
The shocking revelations from leaked IHMS reports on the treatment of Hamid Kahazaie show the scale of medical negligence and departmental culpability in his...
REFUGEE ADVOCATES CONDEMN FURTHER CRIMINALISATION OF REFUGEES
Refugee advocates have condemned Chris Bowen’s proposed toughening of the character test for asylum seekers.
Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul described the announcement as...
Nauruan police arrest asylum seeker on trumped up charges
Nauruan police have arrested a 39-year-old Iranian asylum seeker, Hamid Nadaf, on trumped up charges of “threatening behaviour.”
Hamid was arrested on Friday afternoon, 3...
