To the Editor, I write about the tragedy of an innocent man imprisoned for life by our Govt through the injustice and brutality of the Australian mandatory detention system. Peter Qasim, now 30, is an asylum seeker who has been locked up for 6 1/2 years even though he has committed no crime, faces no [...]
The human, social and financial costs of the system of mandatory detention in Australia warrant serious review. The mandatory detention arrangements have long been the subject of public debate and criticism, and fall short of Australia’s responsibility to meet international human rights obligations as a signatory to a number of international standards for the protection [...]
Hoo Ha Double Standards There should be a Hoo Ha about Cornelia Rau being detained for 10 months in Immigration Detention and being treated so badly. If she wasn’t mentally ill before hand, then she sure is now. Whilst not detracting from the terrible injustice to her, it is well documented that the treatment meted [...]
Forgotten detainee only dreams of flight to freedom By Adele Horin “Sydney Morning Herald” January 29, 2005
Mamdouh Habib came home yesterday after three years in prison in Guantanamo Bay. Lacking the courage or evidence to put him on trial, the US Government has decided to set him free. What happened to Habib is appalling and [...]
Australia’s second largest immigration detention centre has similar problems to Woomera, the facility it replaced. By Russell Skelton. They came for Moosa Ibrahimi just after first light on a frosty morning. Accounts vary as to how many detention officers were involved, but detainees in Baxter’s White 2 compound say there were at least 50. Some [...]
January 19, 2005 Courier Mail Editor, Letters to the Editor Australians’ Selective Generosity While we and the world congratulate ourselves on our generosity toward Tsunami survivors, we might pause to wonder why we are not equally generous with those survivors from other disasters who show up on our doorstep. Obviously, if we see repeated coverage [...]
Edmund Rice Centre Awareness – Advocacy - Action September 29, 2004 MEDIA RELEASE Deported To Danger Report Released Today Finds Australia Sending Rejected Asylum Seekers Into Danger A study released today has found that Australia has endangered the lives of rejected asylum seekers by sending them to situations where their lives are at risk. The [...]
Yesterday evening the Immigration Minister forcibly deported an Iranian young man to Iran. The man, Masoud K S, is not only an Iranian who fled the country - an offence - but also a self-proclaimed Christian, an apostasy under Sharia Law in Iran. Supporters from South Australia from the Sisters of Mercy write: “It is [...]
RCOA Response to Announced TPV Changes August 2004
On 24th August the Government outlined the new legal provisions it will introduce for Temporary Protection Visa (TPV) and Temporary Humanitarian Visa (THV) holders. The new provisions relate to three key areas: § the creation of a Return Pending Visa (subclass 695) which will provide 18 months stay [...]