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MEDIA RELEASE: TAMIL ASYLUM SEEKER FACING DEPORTATION ATTEMPTS SUICIDE IN MELBOURNE
A Tamil asylum seeker scheduled who faced deportation to Sri Lanka today (Wednesday) has attempted suicide in the early hours of this morning.
It is understood that ambulances were called to the Maribynong Detention Centre in Melbourne and that the man has been transported [...]
MEDIA RELEASE: NAURU: ANOTHER PROTEST, ANOTHER SUICIDE ATTEMPT, AND NOW INTERNET CENSORSHIP
Asylum seekers in desperate circumstances on Nauru will hold another protest this afternoon, (Sunday 28th) at 4.00pm Nauru time (3pm, Australian daylight saving time).
Yesterday, a banner saying “we are not criminals” was hung on the detention camp fence but was confiscated by [...]
MEDIA RELEASE: MASS PROTEST HUNGER STRIKE ON NAURU
Almost all of the 400 asylum seekers on Nauru are holding a one-day hunger strike today, Friday 26 October. The hunger strike began Friday morning and will go til Saturday morning.
The hunger strike protest also coincides with Nauru Independence day. For Muslims it is also Eid [...]
MEDIA RELEASE: ANOTHER ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ON NAURU
An Iranian asylum seeker on Nauru attempted to hang himself on Tuesday night. He was rescued by guards and fellow detainees. This is the fourth attempted suicide on Nauru since the start of the Gillard government’s Pacific Solution 2.0.
Meanwhile the number of hunger strikers on Nauru is [...]
MEDIA RELEASE: NAURU ASYLUM SEEKERS APPEAL TO THE MEDIA – WE NEED HELP
Asylum seekers from Nauru have made a desperate call to the Refugee Action Coalition saying they “are in a very bad situation” and “we need urgent help”.
“We believe the media is not allowed to come to see us. Please tell the [...]
MEDIA RELEASE: ANOTHER NAURU PROTEST CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE PROCESSING
More than 300 asylum seekers on Nauru staged another protest Sunday (21 October) afternoon calling for refugee processing to begin immediately and for closure of the Nauru detention centre (see statement below).
The protest on Nauru was timed to coincide with a protest in Melbourne calling [...]
MEDIA RELEASE: MORE PROTESTS AND HUNGER STRIKES IN NAURU AS CONDITIONS DETERIORATE
Another 38 asylum seekers, Iranian and Afghan, arrived in Nauru this morning (Friday 19 October) taking the number of asylum seekers in the increasingly crowded detention centre to around 330.
But asylum seekers on Nauru continue to protest. A united protest of all [...]
Asylum seekers recently transferred to Nauru held a peaceful, but very vocal, protest yesterday (Sunday) afternoon to coincide with a rally in Sydney against off-shore processing.
A call from Nauru to the rally said, “Everyone in the camp are in the protest – it is a peaceful protest. We are Iraqi, Iranian, Afghan and
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