Protests inside Villawood detention centre tonight
Tom Morgan and Vincent Morello, AAP
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/chaos-as-villawood-detainees-protest-20101117-17xeh.html
Detainees started fires, others refused food and five people launched roof protests amid chaotic scenes at Sydney's...
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Media release November 16, 2010
An Iraqi asylum seeker, Ahmad, is believed to have committed suicide at Villawood detention centre around midnight Monday night.
Detainees...
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Media Release November 11, 2010
Refugee groups have welcomed the unanimous High Court decision declaring the present offshore processing invalid.
“The court’s decision has confirmed...
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Media Release October 29, 2010
Despite a communication from the Geneva-based Special Rapporteur on Torture with the UN High Commission on Human Rights to the...
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Media Release October 22, 2010
The parents of ten families at the Leonora detention centre are on hunger strike.
The families are believed to be Kurdish,...
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Media Release October 18, 2010
Refugee groups are horrified with Julia Gillard’s announcement that the minority Labor government will open more detention centres. Of particular...
REFUGEE ADVOCATES WELCOME CHILDREN OUT OF DETENTION ANNOUNCEMENT BUT MANDATORY DETENTION HAS TOÂ GO
Media Release, 16 October 2010
Refugee groups have welcomed statements from the Immigration Minister that asylum seekers’ families and children are to be released from...
MERAK ANNIVERSARY – THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT MUST ACT TO RE-SETTLE TAMIL REFUGEES
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Media release October 8, 2010
A year ago, then prime Minister Kevin Rudd called Indonesian president Yudhoyono requesting...
TWELVE-DAY VILLAWOOD IRANIAN HUNGER STRIKE ENDS
Media release September 30, 2010
REFUGEE GROUP’S PROTEST CALLS FOR END TO MANDATORY DETENTION AND OFF-SHORE PROCESSING
The dry (ie not taking fluids) hunger strike by...
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Media Release September 22, 2010
A fourth Iranian hunger striker, aged 25, was taken from Villawood to Bankstown hospital in the early hours of Wednesday...
