GOVERNMENT USING DODGY DOCUMENTS TO DEPORT TO DANGER
Media release July 28, 2010
Refugee groups are horrified that the government intends to use shonky travel documents to remove a 32 year old Sudanese man, Joel Aggrey Bulabeki from Perth detention centre this (Wednesday)...
AS EAST TIMOR VOTES NO, REFUGEE GROUPS CALL ON GILLARD TO SCRAP OFF SHORE PROCESSING
Media Release, July 13 2010
Refugee groups have welcomed East Timor’s unanimous parliamentary vote to reject Julia Gillard’s proposal to site a regional mega-detention centre in East Timor.
“We are now calling on Julia Gillard to...
STILL WAITING FOR THE AUSTRALIAN SOLUTION: LABOR MUST ABANDON OFF-SHORE PROCESSING. GILLARD COMPROMISES INDEPENDENT...
Media Release July 7, 2010
Refugee groups have condemned Julia Gillard’s new direction for the processing of asylum seekers. Nothing in her speech addressed the immediate issues of the rights of asylum seekers languishing in...
MERAK TAMIL ASYLUM SEEKER HOSPITALISED AS INDONESIAN DETENTION TAKES ITS TOLL – CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND
Media Release June 4, 2010
REFUGEE ADVOCATES CALL FOR THE RELEASE OF ALL MERAK ASYLUM SEEKERS
One the Merak Tamil asylum seekers, a woman with two children, has been hospitalised after suffering a mental breakdown in...
OMBUDSMAN INTERVENES – TAMIL ASYLUM SEEKERS END HUNGER STRIKE
Media release May 21, 2010
SERCO AND IMMIGRATION FACE HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLAINTS
Eight Tamil asylum seekers facing charges resulting from a fight inside Christmas Island detention centre last year have ended their hunger strike after getting...
WHERE’S THE JUSTICE? – TAMILS FACING RIOT CHARGES BEGIN HUNGER STRIKE
Media Release May 19, 2010
Eight of nine Tamil asylum seekers facing riot charges from a fight on Christmas Island in November last year have begun a protest hunger strike in Perth detention centre.
The eight...
SECOND REPORT SAYS SRI LANKA IS UNSAFE
Media release May 18, 2010
REFUGEE GROUPS CALL FOR END OF VISA FREEZE AND TO STOP TAMIL DEPORTATIONS
The second report in less than a month has indicated that there is no justification for the Australian...
DARWIN ASYLUM SEEKERS REJECTD. REFUGEE GROUPS CONDEMN IMMIGRATION MINISTER’S CRUEL HOAX
Media Release, May 6, 2010
As asylum seekers in Darwin detention centre received rejections from their first refugee assessment, refugee groups today condemned the Immigration Minister for playing a cruel hoax on asylum seekers taken...
UNHCR REVIEW–SRI LANKA IS UNSAFE: REFUGEE GROUPS CALL ON THE GOVERNMENT TO UNFREEZE SRI...
Media Release April 28, 2010
“The release of the UNHCR review into Sri Lanka has blown a huge hole in the Rudd government’s justification for freezing Sri Lankan refugee visa applications,” said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson...
VILLAWOOD TAMIL HUNGER STRIKE CONTINUES
Media Release April 22, 2010
Nine Tamil asylum seekers are on their third day of a hunger strike protest against the threat of being deported to Sri Lanka. All of them have received letters stating...
