In the past 3 days several Hazara asylum seekers on Bridging visas in different states, have been given letters telling them among other things to present airline tickets to go back to Afghanistan. This is very distressing to these vulnerable men, many of whom have spent 2 years in isolated detention centres and who were […]
Hi everyone, my name is P***11, that’s what I used to be called in the detention, P***11. Being next to this detention centre just reminded me of how I was in the Christmas Island Detention. I don’t know which words should I use to describe that experience…should I use terrible? It was really –
very, […]
The Refugee Rights Action Network converged on Northam Detention Centre this morning and are currently holding up banners and helium balloons on an overlooking hill. People can be spotted within the centre in the recreation yard and can see the large banners being held by up to 150 protesters reading messages such as “Free the […]
May 20, 2012
The answer is not as simple as ‘stopping the boats’ , writes lawyer Edwina Lloyd.
FOR most Australians, a rice cooker is a useful kitchen appliance. But for hundreds of impoverished Indonesian villagers languishing in Australian prisons on people-smuggling charges, rice cookers are things of wonder.
Earlier this year, one of my […]
Daniel Flitton and Maris Beck, May 16, 2012
ASYLUM seekers branded security threats by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation have been involved in a spate of suicide attempts inside the nation’s detention network.
Two Tamils given adverse assessments by ASIO have attempted to kill themselves at a detention centre in Melbourne’s north in the past month […]
Normally I do not forward petitions such as this on to those in my list but I feel very strongly that this case, along with too many others involving indefinite detention, must become the focus of all those good people of sound and moral mind.
So many questions must be asked of the federal government […]
Health and refugee groups continue to await the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s investigation into detainee self-harm, originally expected in April 2012.
Monday, 23 April 2012 06:00, Rob Payne
Announced in July 2011, the investigation received immediate support, including a letter published in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) by Dr Louise K Newman, Chair of Developmental Psychiatry at […]
Three Afghan Hazara asylum seekers who were tortured and beaten unconscious by guards at the end of February after attempting to escape the Pontianak detention centre in West Kalimantan, Indonesia have been refusing food since the night of Wednesday 18th April.
Mark Goudkamp from the Refugee Action Coalition and Ridwan Bakar from the Indonesian Legal […]
RRAN Meetings
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