PNG uses ruse to open Bomana prison detention centre
Overnight, PNG Immigration has moved to open a open a new Australian detention facility in Port Moresby, annexed to the Bomana prison.
The detention centre...
Graphic footage of Manus shooting
Graphic footage taken during the Good Friday shooting incident has emerged from Manus Island.
Photos of bullet holes damage inside the detention centre including in...
First forced asylum removal to Afghanistan scheduled for tonight, Tuesday 26 August
A last minute application in Federal Circuit Court and an appeal to the United Nations Human Rights Commission are underway to try and prevent...
Protests over points and food as tensions rise on Manus Island as court challenge...
Around 9.00am this morning (Tuesday, 1 March), people found to be refugees staged a protest at the canteen in Oscar Compound.
The protest stopped the...
Villawood Immigration staff attempt forcible transfer of 83 year–old Iraqi woman
Serco and Immigration staff at Villawood detention centre are desperately trying to force an 83 year-old Iraqi asylum seeker, Fatima, into a wheel chair...
Asylum seekers second day of protest on Nauru
Asylum seekers on Nauru held a protest at the gates of the family compound, RPC 3, for the second day in a row, beginning...
Bashed Manus refugees need urgent medical treatment
Two Iranian refugees, Mehdi and Mohammad, arrested and bashed by up to 10 PNG police and immigration officers last night (New Years eve) on...
Another asylum seeker dies on Nauru
In tragic news from Nauru, a 26-year-old Iranian asylum seekers has been found dead, believed to have suicided, this morning.
He was found dead...
Urgent action needed: Airline pilot refuses to take Egyptian asylum seeker being deported
Yesterday, Friday 5 July, the pilot of an Etihad airliner at Sydney thwarted government attempts to deport an Egyptian asylum seeker, when the pilot...
Crisis looms on Manus as water and power turned off
Tensions escalated on Manus Island on Monday, after the power and water for Foxtrot compound was turned off around 1pm.
Refugees were again told that...
