Manus refugees leave PNG and Australia to face COVID-19 risk in the US
Despite the threat of COVID infection, 35 refugees from Manus Island have left Port Moresby today (Thursday 21 May) to fly via South Korea...
FREE THE ROHINGYA ASYLUM SEEKERS: ASIO ADDS TO TORMENT WHILE ATROCITIES CONTINUE
REFUGEE FAMILY MEMBERS KILLED IN ATTACK
Recent reports of an attack by the Burmese army on the small village of Serakparang in Ratheduang township, Western...
Pregnant refugees from Nauru refuse to get off bus in Darwin
Two refugee families flown from Nauru to Darwin last night (Saturday) around 10pm, have refused to get off a bus that was transporting them...
No return to Sri Lanka undertaking a small win for human rights: now bring...
“The government’s undertaking not to return 153 Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka is a small win for human rights from a government that...
AFTER TWO YEARS, FIRST MERAK TAMIL REFUGEES TO COME TO AUSTRALIA
Tamil refugees from the boat stranded in Merak, Indonesia in 2009 after being stopped at the request of then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, have...
Two attempted suicides on Manus Island follow PNG lawyer’s comments
Two Iranian asylum seekers in their mid-20s have attempted suicide on Manus Island, after reading comments by the PNG government lawyer, Ian Molloy.
Molloy was...
Kurdish refugee dead on Christmas Island: another victim of long term detention
It is believed that an Iranian Kurdish refugee, Fazel Chegeni, has died on Christmas Island.
The man, in his early 30s, escaped from the North...
Manus refugees urge Labor to abide by policy on medical transfers
Hundreds of refugees previously held by the Australia government in PNG have written to the Home Affairs and Immigration Minister requesting to act urgently to transfer sick refugees and asylum seekers, still in limbo in PNG, to Australia.
Immigration detainees take over two compounds in Melbourne detention centre
A major protest has broken out in two compounds of MITA North (Ford and Glenelg), of Melbourne's immigration detention centre in Broadmeadows.
All...
Christmas Island rooftop protest ends after four days
The defiant rooftop protest on the Green 1 compound of the Christmas Island detention centre ended yesterday evening around 6.30pm (Christmas Island time, Tuesday...
