Refugee group demands access to Nauru returning Sri Lankan asylum seeker
Media reports that a Sri Lankan asylum seeker from Nauru is about to be returned to Sri Lanka has raised serious concerns that the...
DESPERATE REFUGEES’ PLEA FROM BEHIND THE WIRE AT DARWIN AIRPORT LODGE
Numerous notes pushed through the wire, and messages crushed into paper balls thrown over the fence greeted around 50 refugee protesters at Darwin’s Airport...
Vietnamese asylum seeker attempts suicide after interview by Vietnamese police
A Vietnamese asylum seeker attempted to hang himself at the Yongah Hill detention centre, outside Perth, yesterday, Wednesday 28 August.
His suicide attempt came the...
Police and locals run amok on Manus Island: scores injured; fears for the lives...
Scores of asylum seekers have been injured, some seriously as gangs of armed PNG police and locals go from compound to compound attacking any...
URGENT ACTION NEEDED TO PREVENT TAMIL DEPORTATION
Urgent attempts to initiate legal action are being made this afternoon (Wednesday) to try to prevent the deportation of a Tamil asylum seeker to...
Sudanese refugees arrested in Makassar, Indonesia
Indonesia immigration and police have arrested around 12 Sudanese refugees (including two children) who had been holding a peaceful, indefinite protest vigil outside the UNHCR offices in Makassar, Indonesia.
Not just TPVs: Morrison moves to boost Maritime Powers Act; Enshrine screening out, Restrict...
The government’s “Migration and Maritime Powers Legislation Amendment (Resolving the Asylum Legacy Caseload) Bill 2014” introduced Thursday 25 September goes much further than establishing...
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...
TENSION RISES AGAIN AS DETENTION TOLL OF SELF HARM AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE MOUNTS IN...
Refugee advocates are calling for a specific inquiry into the Darwin detention centre as reports of more cases of attempted suicide and self harm...
Protests; self-harm rock Nauru after TPV and Cambodia announcement
In the aftermath of asylum seekers and refugees being shown a video of Scott Morrison announcing that TPVs would never apply to Nauru, protests,...
