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...
Morrison’s hiding the truth about detention protest. Abbott guilty of refugee war crimes
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison told a media conference that the protest on Christmas Island was “under control”.
Communication with asylum seekers on Christmas Island is...
Tensions rising at Curtin detention centre – Communication blackout restrictions extended to detention
Administrative changes by Serco and the immigration department that have severely curtailed asylum seekers’ ability to earn points that can be used, among other...
