QUETTA: Complete shutter down strike is being observed in the provincial capital city against the last two days of target killing incidents on the call of the Hazara Democratic Party here, Geo News reported. The anguished and angry citizens protesting voiced slogans against the terrorists killing spree and the government’s utter failure to give protection [...]
At least 11 Hazaras were killed Saturday and three more injured when unknown gunmen attacked a passenger vehicle in south-western Pakistan, police and health officials said, dpa reported. Police official Ismail Durrani said the gunmen opened fire on the bus carrying 14 passengers from the minority Shiite community. Zain ullah Kakar, head of the Bolan [...]
On July 27th fefugee rights student activists have taken to the roof of the Monash University campus centre (Clayton Campus) in protest against the Gillard Government’s treatment of asylum seekers. The rooftop protest was called specifically to support the refugees currently detained at the Darwin Detention Centre, who are demonstrating against their imprisonment. Declan Murphy, [...]
The rooftop protest at the Darwin Detention centre is becoming more intense, as one detainee has reportedly self-harmed. What started as a group of five protestors on the rooftop last week became 20 over the weekend who are now hunger striking, and today, one man cut his arms and legs as desperation has deepened. The [...]
Humble submission for paying a best and warm wishes to you from Afghan Hazara asylum seekers, Darwin Detention Centre, NORTH-I. As the protest has been started since Sunday morning at 1:30 on July 23, for this hope that someone will hear their voices and say something for their rights that they deserve, but alas! Still [...]
Lucy McNally A refugee expert says Australia lags other first-world countries in processing asylum seekers. Over the past few days, the number of detainees taking part in a rooftop protest at the Northern Immigration Detention Centre in Darwin has grown to 21. Some of the men are Afghan Hazaras, a minority group of Shiite Muslims. [...]
Peter Mac Under the Gillard government’s new deal with the Malaysian government, the next 800 asylum seekers who attempt to reach Australia by boat will be forcibly transported to Malaysia and detained there at the end of the “queue” of 95,000 refugees waiting to get to third countries. Getting to the front of the queue [...]
Monday 25th. of July 2011 Oslo Photos by Kohistani Copyright and source
Sunday 24 July 2011, by Vikki Riley Pictures by Emma Murphy Source: Kabul Press {{52 Hazaras began a hunger strike this morning at the Northern Immigration Detention Centre in Darwin today while others decided to board the bus to weekly visits to church in the community. By midday 10 were on the roof with banners [...]
In the Name of Merciful God’ This HUNGER STRIKE is a response to the continued pressure exercised by the Australian Immigration Department on us. The participants in this hunger strike have been denied protection and robbed of their liberty for periods of time extending over a year, even up to 20 months. This punitive action [...]
