Nauru asylum seekers lodge assault complaints against guards as more photos of abuse emerge
Seven teenagers assaulted by Wilson Guards during a protest on Nauru on Wednesday night (6 April) have lodged a complaint (see here) with authorities...
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...
Behrouz Boochani arrested by Manus Immigration to force transfer
Behrouz Boochani, the Iranian asylum seeker who staged the tree protest yesterday in Foxtrot compound has been arrested at a meeting with Immigration and...
Refugee groups call for end to inhuman asylum policy separating families and pregnant women...
The Refugee Action Coalition has called for an end to the inhuman Immigration Department policy imposed since the 19 July beginning of the PNG...
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.
REFUGEE GROUPS REJECT GILLARD’S MORE DETENTION SOLUTION
Media Release October 18, 2010
Refugee groups are horrified with Julia Gillard’s announcement that the minority Labor government will open more detention centres. Of particular...
LEGAL RIGHTS IGNORED AS FEDERAL POLICE INTERROGATE ASYLUM SEEKERS
Media Release, 23 March 2011
Refugee supporters and lawyers are extremely concerned that Federal Police are ignoring the legal rights of asylum seekers as they...
Rudd’s anti-people smuggling crusade is threatening asylum seekers lives
11 July 2009
Media Release
In the aftermath of the rescue of a 74 asylum seekers’ boat yesterday, the refugee advocate who alerted Australian border protection...
SECOND NIGHT OF PROTESTS ON CHRISTMAS ISLAND
UPDATE--SECOND NIGHT OF TEAR GAS
Around 10pm Christmas Island time, Federal police began the indiscriminate use of tear gas inside the Christmas Island detention centre.
Asylum...
Manus: Mike compound ends its hunger strike
The compound that started the mass hunger strike on Manus Island has ended their hunger strike – 13 days after it began – for...
