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
Read moreTomorrow, 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
Read moreChildren 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
Read moreThe 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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