Nauru refugees petition against delays and exclusion from the US
Around 500 Nauruan refugees have signed a petition (Nauru resettlement petition) directed to Australian Border Force demanding a timetable for refugee resettlement; to be...
Mentally ill Manus asylum seeker needs urgent help
Refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island have raised serious concerns about the mental health of a 28-year-old Iranian man they say has become...
Hunger strike over detention visit restrictions continues
Around 160 detainees at Villawood in Sydney are continuing their hunger strike – now in its fourth day. (Thursday, 18 Jan), over the draconian...
Hunger strike starts over immigration detention visits restrictions
Over two hundred detainees at two detention centres, Villawood in Sydney and Maribyrnong in Melbourne, have declared a hunger strike in protest at visiting...
Iranian asylum seekers protest in Jakarta—Australia must lift the ban
A group of Iranian asylum seekers stranded in Jakarta held a protest outside the Iranian embassy yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon.
Another group of asylum seekers in...
Manus asylum seekers expel ex-Wilson guards from Hillside camp
Asylum seekers at the Hillside Camp, Manus Island have expelled all ex-Wilson Security guards from their camp area.
Former Wilson’s guards, who used to work...
PNG Supreme Court rules major victory to Manus asylum seekers
The full bench of the PNG Supreme Court today (Friday) finally handed down a ruling formally finding that the human rights of all those...
Police beat Manus refugees
PNG police and Immigration returned to the detention centre around 7.00am (PNG time) this morning and have begun systematically beating refugees in an attempt...
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...
Wanton vandalism as PNG police destroy refugees’ water wells
After 13 days, over 420 refugees and asylum seekers are desperately defying Dutton's siege of the Manus detention centre. See photos of the protests...
