Andy Parks The two current exhibitions being held at the Lismore Regional gallery deal with themes of struggle and survival in an environment where the military are a dominant force in everyday life. The Nature of the Beast is a show by Lismore-based Indonesian artist Aris Prabawa that reflects on the social and political situation [...]
Hazara people note: Our sources confirm that the asylum seeker who died in Curtin detention centre is Hazara. Asylum seeker dies at Curtin detention centre ABC: The Immigration Department has confirmed a detainee has died at the Curtin detention centre near Derby in Western Australia’s north. Department spokesman Sandi Logan says the Afghan man was [...]
by Simon Gaskell, South Wales Echo Mar 26 2011 A HEADMASTER from a Cardiff school is to meet the UK Border Agency to discuss how one of his pupils was arrested when school was in session. Border Agency officers went into Cathays High School, on Crown Way, Gabalfa, at 9.25am on Monday and detained failed [...]
Paul Maley, National security correspondent From: The Australian March 25, 2011 MORE than half of all failed refugee claims are being overturned on review, suggesting there are major inconsistencies in the way asylum cases are being assessed by immigration officials. According to Immigration Minister Chris Bowen 55 per cent of failed asylum claims got up [...]
Sally Neighbour | The Australian | March 25, 2011 DOZENS of failed Afghan asylum-seekers are facing deportation after the federal government persuaded authorities in Kabul to agree to their forced repatriation, despite fears for their safety. Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said his department was finalising plans to return a “small caseload” of about 50 people [...]
On 31 March 2011 the opening of the exhibition Fragments of Tradition, Beauty and Hope, Photographs by 13 young men and women from Bamiyan takes place at 16.00 hours in the Prince Claus Fund Gallery. The Prince Claus Fund is honoured that HE Mr Ben Knapen, Minister for European Affairs and International Cooperation, has kindly [...]
By Emmanuel Duparcq (AFP) YAKAWLANG, Afghanistan — Ibrahim still has vivid nightmares about the slaughter on the morning of January 11, 2001 that he miraculously escaped. Pumped up by victory after seizing control of Ibrahim’s home district of Yakawlang, blood-thirsty Taliban fighters set upon Afghanistan’s most oppressed ethnic group, the Hazaras, in typically ruthless fashion. [...]
Thursday 17 March 2011 A SHEFFIELD asylum seeker has won an eleventh-hour reprieve from being deported to a country with which he claims he has no links. Reza Yosefi was due to be deported to Afghanistan yesterday morning, but a high court judge on Tuesday afternoon granted a last minute injunction, preventing his removal with [...]
March 18, 2011 – 12:21AM A 20-year-old Afghan asylum seeker has been found dead at an immigration detention centre in Queensland. The Department of Immigration confirmed the body of the asylum seeker was discovered in his accommodation about 8pm on Thursday night. Staff at the Scherger Immigration Detention Centre performed CPR on the man, but [...]
16 March 2011 Amnesty International has condemned the mistreatment of eight Afghan citizens awaiting deportation from Ukraine, who are being beaten by border guards and denied adequate food, water and medical treatment. The eight men have been in detention at Boryspil Airport in Kyiv for three days and sources have told Amnesty International that, as [...]
