Home Affairs faces criminal charges alleging health neglect in Immigration detention

On Tuesday 15 March, a Sydney Local Court magistrate is expected to set down a hearing date for the charges, laid in March last...

Grave fears for brain-injured refugee on Nauru

A 28 year-old Rohingyan refugee injured in a motorbike accident on Nauru this morning around 7.00am has been unconscious in the RON hospital since...

Still no COVID testing in MITA after guards test positive

Refugee advocates have accused Covid commander Jeroen Weimar, and the Australian Border Force, of being less than forthcoming with the truth about Covid in...

REFUGEES STRIP-SEARCHED AS SERCO CRACKS DOWN ON ASIO NEGATIVE REFUGEES

Following a report on ASIO negative Tamil refugees, aired on the ABC’s current affairs programme, 730, on Monday night, Serco guards raided and searched...

Nauru refugee assessments a shambles – asylum seekers brought to Australia

Sixty asylum seekers, 23 Tamils and 37 Afghans and Pakistanis, were brought from Nauru to Curtin detention centre on Saturday 19 October. The sixty brings...

Manus Island not calm – asylum seekers declare hunger strike will not stop, two...

Asylum seekers in Foxtrot Compound have issued a letter (transcript below, with photos of letter and signatures) declaring that their hunger strike protest will...

Release Sayed: False red notice lifted from Egyptian asylum seeker

The fabricated Interpol Red Notice issued by the Egyptian government against asylum seeker Sayed Abdellatif has been unconditionally lifted (see document here). The red...

PNG and Nauru refugees fly into COVID risk of US resettlement

After seven years held in offshore detention, thirteen refugees – nine from PNG, four from Nauru – have left their respective prison islands this...

Hazara asylum seeker being deported to danger

A 42-year-old Hazara asylum seeker is scheduled to be forcibly deported to Kabul from Darwin on Monday 14 March after appeals to the Minister...

Uncertainty surrounds US refugee deal: Australia needs to bring them here

LIFETIME BAN EXPOSED AS A STUNT The announcement by US Secretary of State, John Kerry and now by Malcolm Turnbull, that the US will...