AUSTRALIA STRANDS REFUGEES ON REMOTE ISLAND W/ HOSTILE LOCALS
A common narrative is people washing up on tropical island after their boats have become lost at sea. The refugees on Manus Island did embark on a dangerous voyage by boat but that...
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Across the Void: Behrouz Boochani
When the Australian immigration department incarcerated Behrouz Boochani, a Kurdish journalist fleeing the oppressive Islamic regime in Iran, they made a huge tactical error. Seasoned at fighting human rights abuses in his home country...
Australia Is Seeking to Silence Manus Truths
[UPDATE – Behrouz says the meeting was cancelled, immigration is waiting for an important leeter from the minister about him] BREAKING THE VOICES OF MANUS Researchers Against Pacific Black Sites announced today the...
To the Australian People from Manus Island
In the heart of the dark nights, I yell out through the mass of metallic and hard fences. Surrounded by agony and torture, I yell out right next to the tropical birds, thousands kilometre...
FLYING GREEK ANARCHISTS
I could just about call every show we do FUCK THE POLICE and this one is no exception… but it goes without saying these days right? and the flying Greek Anarchists is a truly...
Refugees attacked as tensions escalate on Nauru and Manus
Ben Dohertyt theguardian.com, Tuesday 4 November 2014 11.16 AEST Tensions continue to escalate on Australia’s offshore island detention centres, with a further series of assaults on refugees on Nauru and rising disquiet on Manus...
Human Rights Committee finds Australian immigration proposals violate international law
Republished from the Age Sarah Whyte November 02, 2014 Proposed Abbott government changes to the Migration Act are incompatible with Australia’s human rights obligations, says a parliamentary committee on human rights chaired by a Liberal...
Asylum Seekers Injured after Riot Police Violence on Christmas Island
Australian Federal Police dressed in riot gear have forcibly suppressed a peaceful protest on Christmas Island. While Immigration Minister and the mainstream media are reporting a ‘violent clash’, one needs only to look at...
Attempted Suicide at Offshore Australian Refugee Camp
from the Refugee Action Coalition For the third time in two weeks, there has been an attempted suicide by Manus Island asylum seekers trying to drown themselves. Today, Tuesday 13 April, a man believed...
Guards on Manus Mislead Detainee After Throat Cut by Locals
From The Citizen X Disclosures Facebook page – The Iranian ethnic Arab asylum seeker, Amin Afravi GRL076 whose throat was cut by Manus locals and survived, has been told by Wilson that he...