Biggest yet protests on Manus Island: Lawyers arrive but protests greet Julie Bishop
The daily protests that began on Manus Island on 25 January continue to grow.
Reports from inside the detention say that yesterday, the day Foreign...
Screened out Tamils being rounded up for deportation
Up to 80 Tamil asylum seekers across four Australian detention centres are facing being summarily deported to Sri Lanka.
Tamils in Darwin, Scherger and Christmas...
Refugee advocates welcome High Court injunction
Last minute legal action in the High Court has resulted in a temporary injunction preventing the removal of an Afghan asylum seeker to Kabul.
A...
Refugee advocates urge intervention to stop first forced removal to Afghanistan
Refugee advocates are calling on Scott Morrison to halt the imminent deportation of a Hazara asylum seeker from Villawood detention centre to Afghanistan, scheduled...
Asylum seekers’ protests continue on Manus Island
The daily protests by hundreds of asylum seekers on Manus Island that began on 25 January have now spread to all four compounds inside...
All asylum seekers deserve the Fawad Ahmed treatment: ‘Relocation’ argument must be dropped
The revelations surrounding the Ministerial intervention and hasty changes to the citizenship laws in regard to asylum seeker and spin bowler, Fawad Ahmed, have...
Asylum seekers on Manus Island begin protests
Hundreds of asylum seekers on Manus Island have been holding daily peaceful protests since 25 January.
Each day, up to 500 protesters in Oscar compound...
Morrison backflips over screening out and Iranian deportation threats
All eight of the Iranian asylum seekers screened-out and threatened with deportation have been screened in just a day before the first scheduled removal.
The...
Refugee advocates fear for Iranians facing deportation
In the early hours of Sunday morning, 19 January, at the Wickham Point Immigration Detention Centre near Darwin, Serco guards raided the rooms of...
Nauru legal fiasco: Refugee groups call for charged asylum seekers to be brought to...
“The fiasco engulfing the Nauru legal system has serious implications for the asylum seekers still facing charges following the so-called riot on Nauru on...
