Amnesty International has grave concerns with the Government’s recent move to start returning Hazara asylum seekers to Afghanistan and Pakistan. “The security situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating and we are extremely fearful for their safety...
A refugee activist says the men have been denied due process but the Government is determined to make an example of them and prove that it can forcibly remove people back to Afghanistan. The Immigration...
At least 92 members of Hazara died, including some 20 women and 18 children, more than 200 sustained serious injuries and 30 people gone missing when a bombed ripped through a densely populated fruit market...
Dear Sir/ Madam We are writing to ask you to support Hazara asylum seekers in Australia. We are deeply concerned about the Hazara asylum seekers’ circumstances, and about the resent reports on Australia’s cooperation with...
Amnesty International says Australia’s reported cooperation with Pakistan’s intelligence agencies to stop Hazara asylum seekers leaving the country is “questionable and sordid”. An investigation by journalist Aubrey Belford quotes Pakistani officials confirming that Australian Federal...
Kate Bastians, The West Australian Lone survivor ‘floated for three days’ An asylum seeker says he clung to a rubber tube and drifted helplessly for three days before rescue as the sole survivor of a...
By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, October 18, 12:09 PM QUETTA, Pakistan — As he knelt in prayer to mark one of Islam’s holiest days, Ali Raza Qurban saw a childhood friend and dozens of others...
Senator BOYCE (Queensland) (19:26): In the world of refugees there are many deserving causes, but perhaps none more than that of the Hazara people of Afghanistan, who, through no fault of their own, survive persecution...
WHILE an Afghan asylum seeker won a last-minute court reprieve yesterday against deportation, a group of 18 Sri Lankan men detained on Christmas Island chose to return home rather than be sent to Nauru. But...