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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Another Self immolation on Nauru, Protests Continue
Another refugee this time a Somali woman has self immolated on Nauru and it is feared she is brain dead. Hodan was in RPC1 when she set herself on fire and is now being...
Update on the protests by refugees at the Australian government’s detention center on Nauru
Iranian man Omid who self immolated is feared brain dead. Update via Insurrection News 28.04.16: For 40 days now refugee families detained in the RPC3 compound at the Australian government’s offshore refugee detention center...
Arbitrary refugee decisions expose Manus assessment farce
Via Refugee Action Coalition Despite various threats over the years that they would be denied protection and deported, around 60 asylum seekers on Manus Island have consistently refused to make an application to the...
First Hand Insight of Australia’s Brutal Refugee Centres
Navven Nave Ravi journeyed to Australia seeking refuge from the trouble in Sri Lanka. Upon arriving in Australia he found that this wealthy generally safe country was not going to provide him with the...
Refugees Plight Compounded
[UPDATE: Men have been told they will be moved on April 6] Men on Manus Island and refugee advocates are reporting that Broadspectrum (formerly Transfield) plan to transfer detainees between the compounds of the...
NAURUAN CRANE CLIMBER ARRESTED BY POLICE
Refugee Action Coalition MEDIA ALERT NAURUAN CRANE CLIMBER ARRESTED BY POLICE The Iranian asylum seeker, Reza Khestinzhad, who staged a nine hour protest on top of a the crane on Nauru on Friday (27...
Teacher Outcry at Students Detention
Brisbane teachers have taken “historic” industrial action in their campaign to release an asylum-seeking high school student from a detention centre. More than 50 teachers from Yeronga State High School, including principal Terry Heath,...
Immigration Department Targeted with ‘Pram Jams’
URGENT MEDIA RELEASE Friday November the 6th Friends, Families, and Feminists Against Detention threaten Pram Jams across the country if refugee Golestan isn’t brought to Australia for immediate neonatal care. Friends, Families, and Feminists...
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...