Refugee Rights Action Network’s Victoria Martin on their recent blockade to prevent a baby and her family being removed to Nauru
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MEDIEVAL TORTURES IN MODERN GREECE
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 14/09/2011 - 11:31pmMedical treatment and legal aid is required for the irregular migrants (at least three of them are of Kurdish origin; therefore, may very well be prima facie refugees) who are being detained after the raid of the Greek police in Egoumenitsa, Greece on 22 August 2011.
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Boy protests detention at Broadmeadows detention centre in Melbourne
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 18/03/2011 - 6:02pmA teenager climbed five metres into a tree at 7AM on Friday 18th March at a detention centre in Broadmeadows Melbourne and refused to come down for eight hours. The ABC reported he was was perched on a branch about five metres off the ground and frequently waved his shirt to attract the attention of media helicopters, whilst firefighters and staff tried to coax him down.
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More tear gas and fires on Christmas Island
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 18/03/2011 - 2:11pmSydney Refugee Action Coalition Media Release 18 March, 2011 Police have used a stronger version of tear gas that has badly affected protesters inside the Christmas Island detention centre tonight (Thursday night), around 10.00pm Christmas Island time. Over 250 asylum seekers were involved in the protest. The protests started in response to a letter asylum seekers received from Canberra Thursday afternoon. While the whole content of the letter is not known, the letter says in part that security checks for those waiting would be completed by the end of April.
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Refugee advocates urge restraint as tear gas used on peaceful protest on Christmas Island
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 17/03/2011 - 8:13pmRefugee Action Coalition Media Release 17 March 2011 Following the use of tear gas and a bean bag round to break an asylum seeker’s leg on Sunday night, more evidence of heavy-handed policing on Christmas Island has emerged. Asylum seekers on Christmas Island have told the refugee Action Coalition that tear gas was used on a peaceful protest on Christmas Island last night (ie Wednesday night).A group of around 400 asylum seekers were walking in the open area of the detention centre in an attempt to speak to media representatives on the island.
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Tear gas used on detainees on Christmas Island
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 15/03/2011 - 8:38amIn yet another disturbing incident within Australian detention centres, tear gas and possibly even rubber bullets have been used by the Australian Federal Police on Christmas Island against protesting detainees. With over 6000 people being held in detention and an increasing cycle of protests, escapes, hunger strikes, self-harm and repression within centres it is clear that the ALP has delivered a detention regime every bit as soul destroying as Howard.
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Crack down begins on Christmas Island – refugee supporters say open the gates
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 14/03/2011 - 10:06pmRefugee Action Coalition Media release March 14, 2011 There are disturbing reports from Christmas Island asylum seekers that a number, perhaps 20, of the people who escaped from the detention centre on Friday night have been handcuffed and taken to the high security management unit, Red Compound, last night (ie Sunday night).
Some reports indicate that up to 20 people may have been taken to the Red Compound. At least two Afghans, one a teacher, inside the detention centre, were handcuffed and taken away last night.
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Hunger strike at Villawood ends
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 14/03/2011 - 1:14pmThe hunger strike at Villawood has ended on Sunday March 13–below is the text below of a letter sent by the strikers to the Immigration Department to inform them.
Villawood IDC
15 Birmingham Avenue
Villawood
13 March 2011
Deputy Director – IMA
Villawood IDC
Villawood NSW
Dear Sir,
Concluding the fasting vigil
We, Thillainathan Suthakaran, Kokilakumar Subramaniyam and Suvendran Kathirkamaththamby, are writing to inform you that we are concluding our fast on 13 March 20^11, which started on 1 March 2011.
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Asylum seekers break out of Christmas Island detention centre
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 10:44pmSydney Refugee Action Collective Media release, 12 March 2011 Reports from asylum seekers on Christmas Island indicate that at least 150 asylum seekers, believed to be mostly Iranian, have broken out of Christmas Island detention centre.
All Serco guards have withdrawn from the detention compound and are believed to be searching for the escaped detainees.
The trouble began around 11.30 Christmas Island time and seems to have been concentrated on the main compounds of the detention centre. All compounds have been locked down, leaving remaining asylum seekers unattended.
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