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Cornelia Rau Case & Independent Psychiatrists
Monday, 7 February 2005, 12:52 am | Project SafeCom
"This week, the Minister responsible for asylum seekers and detainees as well as for Australian Indigenous people, should bow her head in shame if not in disgrace: it was exactly those two population groups she is supposed to serve on behalf of ... More >>
Christmas Island Detention Centre a US Army base
Tuesday, 1 February 2005, 10:24 am | Project SafeCom
"WA Refugee lobby group Project SafeCom comments today that the resumption of construction of the Christmas Island detention amounts to the most ludicrous squandering of taxpayers money, and it calls on the Howard government to stop its further plans ... More >>
Christmas Island Detention Centre a US Army base?
Tuesday, 1 February 2005, 9:04 am | Project SafeCom
''WA Refugee lobby group Project SafeCom comments today that the resumption of construction of the Christmas Island detention amounts to the most ludicrous squandering of taxpayers money, and it calls on the Howard government to stop its further plans to build the ... More >>
Review And Scrutiny Should Precede Deportations
Tuesday, 1 February 2005, 9:03 am | Project SafeCom
''West Australian refugee lobby group Project SafeCom today calls for a transparent bi-partisan sign-off committee, headed by the judiciary to control and check removals and forced deportations of failed asylum seekers.'' More >>
Asylum Seeker In Imminent Danger
Thursday, 20 January 2005, 9:47 am | Project SafeCom
Ardeshir Gholipour is an Iranian asylum seeker who has been in Australian immigration detention since March, 2000, having fled Iran earlier that year. More >>
Australia desperately trying to deport asylum man
Tuesday, 18 January 2005, 8:59 am | Project SafeCom
"Some officials in the Immigration Department are controlled by ruthless fanatics, who implement their cruel deportation regulations because they have the right to implement them, but they are fed by merciless torture considerations, and they prefer ... More >>
Bakhtiaris "holed up" in Bangkok Jail
Monday, 3 January 2005, 10:37 am | Project SafeCom
"According to Kay Danes from the Foreign Prisoner Support Service, who with her husband Kerry was falsely imprisoned in a Laos jail in 2001 for suspected diamond smuggling, the fact that the Bakhtiari family is now stuck in Thailand as immigration ... More >>
Vanstone should read Bakhtiari files, apologise
Tuesday, 21 December 2004, 3:43 pm | Project SafeCom
"After this morning's revelations by the Melbourne Age, which lifts the lid off the manipulations and spinlines coming from the former and current minister of immigration, assisted by the Trial by Media of the Bakhtiari family, Minister Vanstone ... More >>
Hunger Care Standards strikers seriously breached
Tuesday, 14 December 2004, 9:53 am | Project SafeCom
"Refugee group Project SafeCom says that the Baxter detention centre operator GSL, is in serious breach of medical standards, especially in relation to the management of a hunger strike, not only, but also as laid down by the Declaration of Malta." More >>
Baxter Hunger Strikers Enter Second Week
Monday, 13 December 2004, 9:31 am | Project SafeCom
"At the start of the second week of the hunger strike at the Baxter detention centre, still 25 Iranians are on a hunger strike." More >>
Hungerstrikes naked roof protests at Baxter Camp
Tuesday, 7 December 2004, 8:36 am | Project SafeCom
"The recent hungerstrikes by Sri Lankans, last week's incident of a Turkish detainee who climbed naked on the roof of the White Two compound, and today's roof protest of an Iranian man, should be ample evidence of the fact that the culture ... More >>
High Court abandoned, unprotected by Australian PM
Thursday, 11 November 2004, 4:11 pm | Project SafeCom
Deliberate government refusal to protect The High Court of Australia High Court should demand PM to explain himself PM should now be dismissed by The Australian Parliament or Governor- General More >>
Int. Criminal Court Considered Over Asylum Issue
Wednesday, 20 October 2004, 10:52 am | Project SafeCom
Where Do We Go From Here Now? reflections and a proposed strategy, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the sinking of SIEV X - website commentary by Tony Kevin, Sunday 17 October 2004. More >>
Asylum seekers begin hunger strike at Villawood
Thursday, 7 October 2004, 8:25 am | Project SafeCom
Detainees at Villawood detention centre in Sydney began a hunger strike last night (ie Tuesday). More >>
Australia would lock up Von Trapp family Priest
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 8:58 am | Project SafeCom
"Australia, under its current mandatory imprisonment of so-called people smugglers, would lock up the priest who assisted the Von Trapp family across the Swiss Alps to Australia, as well as the man who sold a donkey to Mary and Joseph who ran off ... More >>
Asylum Seeker Peter Qasim Now Detained 7 Years
Tuesday, 7 September 2004, 9:13 am | Project SafeCom
Kashmiri shepherd Peter Qasim has been detained in Australia longer than any other asylum seeker, beginning his 7th year of detention on 9th September. But this could just be the beginning of his life behind the razor wire. When Immigration Minister ... More >>
Action planned for longest detained asylum seeker
Monday, 6 September 2004, 12:42 am | Project SafeCom
National protest action under the theme of "National Day of Shame" in capital cities around Australia is to be expected this week on Thursday 9 September, when Kashmiri asylum seeker Peter Qasim will have been locked away in immigration detention for ... More >>
Campaigning over DIMIA broken promises begins
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 11:26 am | Project SafeCom
Refugee advocates around Australia, including renowned Canberra-based migration agent Marion Lê OAM, are furious about what looks like deliberate stalling of refugee assessment outcomes for Afghanis in the Baxter detention centre by the Department of Immigration, ... More >>
Visa Changes attempt to expel traumatised refugees
Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 10:08 am | Project SafeCom
"Today's detailing of the changes announced by Immigration minister Amanda Vanstone confirm observations expressed by Project SafeCom immediately when the changes were first announced - that the Howard government uses a utilitarian philosophy and divides ... More >>
Al Qa’eda’s message of hate rejected in Australia
Tuesday, 27 July 2004, 9:10 am | Project SafeCom
“As a Muslim Australian, I reject the reported recent threat that purports to be from an European cell of Al Qa’eda against Australia and call upon all Muslims to ignore all hate messages from abroad and to stand firm and united in our opposition ... More >>
