HAZARA ASSOCIATION AND REFUGEE SUPPORTERS CALL ON AUSTRALIA TO ASSIST INDONESIA TO STEP UP...
Hazara and refugee groups in Australia are calling on the Indonesian and Australian governments to step up the search efforts for the asylum boat...
AUSTRALIA’S SHAME: DARWIN ASYLUM KIDS SHOULDN’T BE IN DETENTION
Refugee groups have condemned the detention of the 10 Chinese asylum seekers in Darwin. The ten, including a family group of two parents and...
MERAK AFGHAN ASYLUM SEEKERS CALL FOR AUSTRALIA TO PROVIDE URGENT HELP
One hundred and twenty Afghan asylum seekers stranded on a Singaporean ship in Merak have appealed to the UNHCR, and the Australian government for...
REFUGEE ACTIVISTS CONDEMN INTIMIDATION OF DARWIN ASYLUM SEEKERS
Refugee activists, part of the refugee convergence in Darwin have condemned the threats and intimidation of asylum seekers in the Northern Immigration Detention Centre...
ACTIVISTS ARRESTED WHILE TRYING TO MAKE CONTACT WITH REFUGEES IN WICKHAM POINT
Seven people from several Australian cities were arrested by Northern Territory police for trying to make contact with refugees inside the Wickham Point Detention...
FIRST REPORTED INSTANCE OF SELF HARM AT WICKHAM POINT
REFUGEE PROTESTERS TARGET DARWIN'S BIGGEST DETENTION CENTRE
Reliable reports from inside the Wickham Point detention centre indicate that an asylum seeker has been hospitalised following...
DESPERATE REFUGEES’ PLEA FROM BEHIND THE WIRE AT DARWIN AIRPORT LODGE
Numerous notes pushed through the wire, and messages crushed into paper balls thrown over the fence greeted around 50 refugee protesters at Darwin’s Airport...
SERCO BANS DETENTION VISITS AS REFUGEE ACTIVISTS CONVERGE ON AUSTRALIA’S DETENTION CAPITAL
Refugee activists have condemned Serco and the Immigration department’s ban on visits to Darwin’s detention centres over the Easter weekend.
Even before protests were scheduled...
TAMIL ASYLUM SEEKER BASHED AT VILLAWOOD
In a shocking example of the abuse and mismanagement of Australian detention centres, a mentally ill Tamil refugee was bashed by Serco guards at...
VIETNAMESE ASYLUM SEEKERS HUNGER STRIKE IN DARWIN
It is believed at least a dozen Vietnamese asylum seekers in Darwin’s Northern Immigration Detention Centre (NIDC) are on hunger strike.
The hunger strike highlights...
