Press releases

Media Release January 28, 2010 In scenes reminiscent of the early protests that rocked Woomera, Port Hedland and Baxter, under the Howard government, a mass protest by Tamil detainees at Christmas Island began at 4.30pm...

Media Release January 26, 2010 Refugee groups are demanding the immediate release of two Australian citizens and a Canadian national who were detained this afternoon (around 3.00pm Tuesday, Indonesian time) by Indonesian police in the...

Media Release January 20, 2010 Refugee advocates have condemned the move by the Australian Federal Police to charge 12 Christmas Island detainees with offences arising from a fight inside the detention centre last November. It...

Media Release January 19, 2010 “International protests have put the Rudd government on notice that the world is watching what happens to the asylum seekers at Merak. Kevin Rudd’s Indonesian Solution is a matter of...

Media Release January 15 Refugee groups today completely rejected claims by the Sri Lankan government that asylum seekers or refugees could return to Sri Lanka without fear of harm. “This claim by the Sri Lankan government...

Media Release January 8, 2010 Late Thursday afternoon (7 January), the Department of Immigration and Citizenship announced that 16 Sri Lankans and 5 Afghan asylum seekers presently on Christmas Island will be granted visas next...

Media Release January 5, 2010 Over 400 Tamil asylum seekers at Christmas Island have begun a protest boycott of activities inside the detention centre as the first part of a protest against long term detention...

Media Release December 28, 2009 Around 40 people staged a lively protest outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta on Monday, 28 December. A large banner in Bahasa and English said, “Reject the Indonesia Solution, Free the...

Media Release December 28 Refugee activists in Indonesia are extremely concerned at the fate of one of the Tamil Merak asylum seekers, “Sammy”, who was arrested at the Merak hospital on Saturday. “Sammy”, who had permission...

Media release December 28 A coalition of Indonesian democratic rights organisations, including Jakarta Legal Aid Institute, Legal Aid Foundation, Confederation Congress of Indonesia Union Alliance will join the Refugee Action Coalition from Australia to hold...