Besmellah Rezaee grew up in Afghanistan, he is part of the Hazara people, the most persecuted people in the country. After only six years in Australia, Besmellah Rezaee has already achieved more than others do in a lifetime. Besmellah works tirelessly on behalf of the Afghanistanis community in Australia, especially through the media. He co-founded [...]
Note: If you are under 18, please do not open this page. By Kamran Mir Hazar and Vikki Riley | Darwin, Australia A new documentary made by Hazara director Ali Mohammadi, seen by Kabul Press shows a hitherto previously unseen dimension to the spectre of Pashtun Kuchis crimes against Hazaras in Behsood and Daimirdad district [...]
Melinda Houston SBS One, 9.30pm Sadly, one suspects that even if people who loathe ”boat people” watch this, it’s unlikely to change their minds. For we latte sippers, though, who are deeply concerned about Australia’s treatment of refugees, The Man Who Jumped is a thorough, thoughtful and timely study of our refugee policies, framed by [...]
Vikki Riley | Darwin, Australia Three days after the asylum seeker boat incident off the coast off Indonesia fifteen people have been spotted on a remote island beach bringing the tally of total survivors to a meagre forty seven only. Young Esmat Adine, a young Hazara man, is one of fifteen Hazaras he knows of [...]
Vikki Riley For the first time, a Hazara has won the annual Human Rights Art Award in Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory, presented by Mrs Tessa Pauling, the wife of the Chief Administrator, representative of Queen Elizabeth here in Darwin. Chosen from a large pool of entries that included aboriginal artists and contemporary painters and [...]
Kirsty Needham THE Federal Magistrates Court has ruled that a reviewer who rejected the refugee claims of many Afghan boat arrivals appeared to be biased, taking an ”inflexible and mechanical” approach to the plight of Hazara ethnic minorities fleeing persecution. Refugee approval rates for Afghan asylum seekers fell in the first three months of this [...]
Hazara People note: We do respect all ethnic groups, but Hazara People are not Afghan. Afghan or Pashtun is another ethnic group in Afghanistan. THE deportation of an afghan asylum seeker who is fighting to remain in Australia, has been delayed after a court today issued a last-minute injunction. Refugee Action Coalition organiser Ian Rintoul [...]
A message from Basir Ahang journalist and human rights activist in Italy: Unfortunately Australian government decided to deport the asylum seeker Ismail Mirzajan back to Afghanistan; he is a Hazara asylum seeker who has arrived to Australia in February 2010. He fled Afghanistan as a teenager, in 2001, after the killing of his father by [...]
We, the undersigned, call on the Department of Immigration and Citizenship of Australia not to send asylum seeker & Hazara ethnic Ismail Mirza Jan back to Afghanistan. Save Mr Jan from persecution! to sign the petition Click here
