Archive for October, 2007
Monday, October 29th, 2007
ASRC exposes human rights abuses in detention!
The ASRC has leaked to www.crikey.com. au video footage that has never been publicly shown before of a training video by ACM at the time of the Port Hedland detention centre riots of 2001. It’s a training video showing its staff how to remove an asylum seeker from a detention centre and can be viewed [...]
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
This weeks ASRC 10 good news stories
ONE
We stopped today an asylum seeker being deported back to China to face torture!
We won!! our High Court case this morning and succeeded in getting an injunction. What this means is that the government cannot deport this man until the two court applications we already have on foot are determined. This is significant in not [...]
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Complain to Ch 7, 9 and 10 for their racist treatment of Sudanese Refugees!
Click below to find out why you need to complain and how:
Make a complaint to Channel 7, 9 and 10 for their racist treatment of Sudanese Refugees
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
Ten ASRC Good News Stories!
ONE
Freedom after 7 years of struggle…we have a permanent visa for a stateless Palestinian after he spent 6 and a half years in detention! When the ASRC got involved he was facing indefinite detention, we won his case, got him out of detention onto a TPV and then successfully argued for it to be [...]
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Cuts to intake of African Refugees is discriminatory and unjustified
The decision of the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship to cut the intake of refugees from Africa from 50% to 30% of our annual intake is discriminatory and unjust. Our refugee and humanitarian intake of 13,000 people a year is already pathetic enough (we are 32nd in the world, without us turning our backs on Africa, the [...]
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
72 Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers remain in limbo
The 72 Sri Lankan asylum seekers found to be refugees by Australia continue to remain in limbo on Nauru. Australia is refusing to accept them and settle them in Australia despite being legally obligated to under the Refugee Convention. It is truly appalling that the Australian government refuses to uphold it’s legal and moral reponsibilities [...]
