Asylum Seeker Resource Centre blog

    • 24 MAR 15
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    Vale Malcolm Fraser

    The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre has lost not only a fellow advocate but a true friend. Someone whose involvement with the centre extended far beyond the purely professional to a warm and very personal friendship. Ms Fraser’s involvement with the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre began in March 2010, at the launch of his biography at

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    • 16 FEB 15
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    A YEAR SINCE REZA BARATI KILLED, MANUS STILL UNSAFE

    Tomorrow, February 17, marks a year since 23-year-old Iranian asylum seeker Reza Barati was tragically murdered in an Australian-run detention centre on Manus Island. “Reza came seeking our help. Instead, he was murdered by the very people employed to protect him, funded by our Government,” ASRC CEO Kon Karapanagiotidis said today. “Reza’s friends and relatives

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    • 11 FEB 15
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    CHILDREN MUST BE IMMEDIATELY RELEASED FROM DETENTION

    Children and their families must be taken out of detention in Australia and on Nauru as a matter of urgency, ASRC Detention Rights Advocate Pamela Curr said today. “Today’s release of the Australian Human Rights Commission Children in Detention report confirms what medical experts and others working in detention have been saying all along: children

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    • 16 JAN 15
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    Government must release man on hunger strike into community detention, not let him die

    The Abbott Government is leaving a hunger-striking Iranian man to die in detention rather than relieving his suffering by releasing him into community detention, ASRC CEO Kon Karapanagiotidis said today. “The young man has gone for a total of 76 days without food in a Darwin detention centre and is very close to death. He

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