GOVERNMENT RENEGES: FORTY TAMILS TOLD NO APRIL SECURITY CLEARANCES
A phone call this afternoon (Friday 15 April) from Curtin detention centre has confirmed that at least 40 Tamil asylum seekers have been told...
Attempted suicide on Manus Island – Advocates suggest a good time for Transfield to...
A 25 year-old Burmese asylum seeker attempted suicide at Manus Island yesterday afternoon, Monday 31 August.
The emergency unfolded over almost four hours as the...
Manus crisis reaching breaking point as mental distress worsens
Conditions are reaching breaking point on Manus Island. This morning, Monday 24 June, two incidents of self-harm within hours have set the scene for...
Djokovic detention lifts the lid on hypocrisy and arbitrary immigration detention
“Rules are rules,” says Scott Morrison. But the detention of Novak Djokovic has shown that the only rules Morrison cares about are the ones...
Free Reza from jail on Nauru: contact Nauruan Consulate-General
Update: Reza was released from prison without charge on 2 December: thanks to everyone who contacted the Nauruan consulate
Reza Khestinzhad, the Iranian asylum seeker...
Tensions growing on Nauru: locals banned from detention centre after asylum seeker attacked by...
A fight between asylum seekers and a Nauruan local last Friday, 11 October, has resulted in all local Nauruan workers being banned from Bravo...
Curtin hunger striker strike suspended after meeting assurance
Eleven Sinhalese asylum seekers in Curtin detention centre suspended their hunger strike on Saturday 9 August, the fourth day of their protest.
The protest was...
Concerns for welfare of ASIO negative hunger strikers
After two days of their dry hunger strike protest, most of the 28 refugees staging their protest on the soccer field at the Melbourne...
VILLAWOOD IN CRISIS – TWO IRANIAN HUNGER STRIKERS HOSPITALISED
Media release September 21, 2010
While attention has been focused on the fate of the roof-top protesters at Villawood detention centre, the dry hunger strike...
Refugee group condemns transfer of asylum seekers to Manus Island
The Refugee Action Coalition condemns the Immigration Department’s new announced transfer of 25 single male asylum seekers to Manus Island.
“The government doesn’t even have...
