Detained asylum seekers will be unfairly targeted by proposed new laws aimed at managing ex-prisoners who have been placed in detention after having their visas cancelled, ASRC CEO Kon Karapanagiotidis said today. “People who came to Australia on a range of different visas and were subsequently jailed for committing serious crimes are having their visas
Read moreOur extraordinary ambassadors the Cat Empire are calling on Melbourne to help the ASRC. Members of the band will be at 3 locations to meet and greet those donating to our foodbank and material aid program. Cat Empire are extremely passionate about the work of the ASRC. In their own word they say, “Wherever you
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
Read more
