Refugees’ statement from new protests on Nauru
The increasing frustration at the lies and delays has seen two protests on Nauru - last Sunday and Monday nights - at camp 3. Below is the statement that they released:
We have waited...
Rally to Bring back Abyan. Close the camps, End the war on refugee women
5-6pm this Friday 23 October, Sydney Town Hall
Last Friday, Abyan, the 23 year old Somali victim of rape on Nauru, was seized from Villawood and forced back to the island prison of Nauru. Ayban...
Audio from recent protests on Nauru
Asylum seekers on Nauru sent us the audio below of their recent protests. The recordings of two separate protests continue for over 20 minutes of chanting each but shorter selections from each are below.
Chanting...
Tell Qantas: Don’t deport Priya and Nades to danger
On Thursday next week, 9 August, there will be actions happening outside Qantas and Jetstar offices in Melbourne and Sydney urging the airline to publicly commit not to participate in the deportation of Priya...
As Morrison refuses compromise on kids, #BringThemHere now
Nauru is in the grip of a rapidly deteriorating medical crisis. The dire medical state of many of the refugees, including children refusing food and drink for a number of weeks, has been compounded...
Sayed Kasim’s story
Sayed, who has recently been released from Villawood detention centre after being forced to flee first Burma, then Malaysia, asked us to post this thank you letter to his supporters, along with photos below...
Ali Jenabi: smuggling refugees to freedom
Review of The People Smuggler, by Robin de Crespigny, Penguin, 2012
Mark Goudkamp, Refugee Action Coalition
IT IS December 2010. After finally being released from the Villawood detention centre, a refugee and his mother watch TV...
Hunger strike at Villawood ends
The hunger strike at Villawood has ended on Sunday March 13--below is the text below of a letter sent by the strikers to the Immigration Department to inform them.
Villawood IDC
15 Birmingham Avenue
Villawood
13 March 2011
Deputy...
Refugee rights campaign wins as children come off Nauru
Are the children coming off?
After over five years of campaigning, the refugee rights movement has had a major victory: the government has said all children will come off Nauru by the end of the...
