By Will Morrow Protests continue in Australian immigration detention centres against the Gillard Labor government’s regressive policies that have led to the dramatic increase in long-term detainees and rising levels of mental illness and self-harm incidents among asylum seekers. Three refugees are maintaining their rooftop demonstration at the Villawood detention centre in Sydney’s western suburbs. [...]
Updated note/ 28.04.2011: Karzai and his fundamental team still try to change the election results in Ghazni. They do want to limit the Hazaras political rights. By Kamran Mir Hazar Updated Note/ 12.01.2010 : AIEC confirmed that all 11 seats in Ghazni province have been won by members of the Hazara ethnic group. But still [...]
By Will Morrow Labor’s Immigration Minister Chris Bowen yesterday announced changes to refugee laws that will further eviscerate the democratic rights of asylum seekers. The amendments will introduce new types of temporary protection visas and pave the way for the deportation of refugees who join protests against the intolerable conditions and indefinite detention inside Australia’s [...]
Asylum seekers continue to hunger strike at Western Australia’s Curtin Immigration Detention Centre, but officials and refugee supporters differ over numbers involved. A peaceful protest at the Kimberley facility continued on Tuesday as Immigration Minister Chris Bowen announced government plans to toughen laws to deter violent behaviour at detention centres. The proposed changes would mean [...]
Hazara People: Our sources say that hundreds of Hazara asylum seekers are on a hunger strike from last night because the Department of Immigration did not allow the human rights visitor to come inside the Curtin detention centre. ————————————— Government dismisses hunger strike claims The Immigration Department says it cannot confirm whether asylum seekers are [...]
Sectarian killings have been mostly targeted against Hazara Shias, who came to Balochistan decades ago from Afghanistan and Iran. Police and counter-terrorism officials say that anti-Shia militant groups such as Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) are active in Balochistan. By Salman Siddiqui KARACHI: Despite the presence of paramilitary forces with their extended powers for [...]
Sarah Elks, North Queensland Correspondent From: The Australian Refugee advocates warn that violent protests could erupt at the newest mainland immigration detention centre, the remote Scherger RAAF Base on Cape York, just as they have at Villawood and Christmas Island. Hassan Ghulam, spokesman for the Australian Hazara Council, is in contact with several detainees inside [...]
Fatema Akbari is the owner of Gulistan Sadaqat Company, a furniture manufacturing business in Kabul. Founded in 2003, the business employs close to 100 Afghans, mostly women she has trained as carpenters. A widow herself, she prioritizes hiring women whose husbands have either been killed or disabled in the war, because she is passionate about [...]
UPDATE 2.05pm: PROTESTERS remain on the roof of a Sydney immigration centre as the government said it would take a tough line on their claims. Buildings were set alight and rescue workers attacked overnight in violent protests by asylum-seekers at the Villawood immigration detention centre. Protests began yesterday, after two men climbed onto the roof. [...]
