Three Medevac hunger strikers in hospital as protest enters its 11th day
Eleven Medevac refugees remain on hunger strike in MITA, with three others of the fourteen protesters in hospital as the protest enters its eleventh...
Nauruan refugees’ protest defies police ban
Up to 300 refugees, women, men and children, from all refugee camps across Nauru have defied the Nauruan government and police attempts to ban...
Murdered Manus asylum seeker was Faili Kurd
The asylum seeker killed on Monday night in the Manus Island detention centre was a 24 year-old Faili Kurd. He was one of the...
Attempted refugee suicide in Kangaroo Point exposes mental health danger in detention
After seven year’s detention, including up to and more than a year of closed detention in Australia, serious mental health issues are emerging among...
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,...
MORE SELF-HARM IN DARWIN AS DETENTION CENTRE IN MELT DOWN
The Refugee Action Coalition has called for urgent government intervention in the Darwin detention centre, as the number of attempted suicide and self-harm incidents...
REFUGEE ADVOCATES WELCOME CHILDREN OUT OF DETENTION ANNOUNCEMENT BUT MANDATORY DETENTION HAS TO GO
Media Release, 16 October 2010
Refugee groups have welcomed statements from the Immigration Minister that asylum seekers’ families and children are to be released from...
Community anger at asylum seekers abrupt shift from Villawood
Up to 82 asylum seekers at Villawood detention centre in Sydney have been told they are to be shifted from to Curtin and other...
LIPS REMAIN STITCHED IN DARWIN DETENTION CENTRE “IMR” PROTEST BY STATELESS ASYLUM SEEKERS
Three Faili Kurdish asylum seekers who stitched their lips together on Monday morning are maintaining their protest in the Darwin detention centre.
The two others...
Villawood asylum seekers begin protest against forced transfers
Up to 50 asylum seekers at Villawood have begun a sit-in protest inside the detention centre against the forced transfer of asylum seekers from...
