Pakistan agrees to repatriate Manus refugee body

The Australian Pakistan embassy has agreed to take responsibility to arrange for Kamil Hussain’s body to be repatriated to Pakistan. A letter from the...

One week deadline to repatriate Manus refugee body

PNG Immigration have given refugees on Manus Island one week to make arrangements to send the body of 33 year-old Pakistan refugee Kamil Hussain,...

PNG supreme court to rule on Manus closure

A hearing of the PNG Supreme Court in Port Moresby on Monday 25 July, will rule on five test cases of refugees on Manus...

A Current Affair fails the test – selective, superficial and sanitised program did not...

A Current Affair has broadcast a very selective, superficial and sanitised view of Nauru, according to spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition, Ian Rintoul. ...

Refugee supporters to rally to close Manus and Nauru and #BringThemHere

Refugee supporters will rally across the country on Saturday 18 June and Sunday 19 June to Welcome Refugees and call for the closure of...

Orders to close Manus detention likely before the Australian election

A directions hearing in the PNG Supreme Court, on Monday 6 June, has opened the way for explicit orders to close the Manus detention...

Nauruan police arrest asylum seeker on trumped up charges

Nauruan police have arrested a 39-year-old Iranian asylum seeker, Hamid Nadaf, on trumped up charges of “threatening behaviour.” Hamid was arrested on Friday afternoon, 3...

Refugee husband says Nauru fire was suicide attempt

The fire that gutted the unit in the Nauru refugee camp, Anuijo, on Monday, May 23, was part of a suicide attempt, according the...

House fire in Nauru family camp

A fire has broken out in one of the units inside the family camp, RPC 3, on Nauru. It is understood that the Iranian woman...

Massive Manus protest joins Nauru day 56

Prisoners in all the compounds of Manus Island detention centre have staged a joint protest inside the detention centre. Despite the rain, hundereds joined the...