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Amnesty International Public Statement

VIET NAM: IMPRISONMENT OF ASYLUM SEEKER FORCIBLY RETURNED BY AUSTRALIA WOULD BE UNLAWFUL AND COULD BE DISASTROUS FOR HER FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN 11 August 2016,...

Vietnam jails four asylum seekers over voyage to Australia despite ‘no retribution’ promise

Tran Thi Loan, 46, is appealing a three-year sentence handed to her in April. By Jessica Longbottom Updated 26 May 2016, 8:27pm Four people sent back...

Women flee Vietnam for second time following turn-back from Australia

Three women who fled Vietnam, only to be sent back by the Australian Government, have again fled their homeland, as Vietnamese authorities "strictly punish"...

Recrimination awaits rejected Vietnamese asylum seekers

Bishop Paul Cao Dinh Thuyen, centre, the retired bishop of Vinh diocese in central Vietnam, says indefinite imprisonment awaits many Vietnamese asylum seekers whose...

UN informed of Australia’s secretive return of Vietnamese asylum seekers

"Australia should never return a refugee to persecution": Daniel Webb of the Human Rights Law Centre. April 21, 2015 The Australian Government has secretly returned 46...

Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Country Information Report: Vietnam, 21 June...

http://dfat.gov.au/about-us/publications/Documents/country-information-report-vietnam.pdf

UNICEF statement on Australia and Vietnam signing MOU to return Vietnamese asylum seekers

Statement attributable to Amy Lamoin, Head of Policy and Advocacy, UNICEF Australia SYDNEY, 13 December 2016 - UNICEF Australia notes the announcement yesterday that a...

Abbott government under fire for secret bid to hand back asylum seekers to Vietnam

The HMAS Choules (right) was close to the southern port city of Vung Tau. Photo: Kate Geraghty April 17 2015 Heath Aston Vietnamese Australians and human rights activists...

Boat of Vietnamese asylum seekers turned back after 40-minute interviews

Major General Andrew Bottrell gives evidence at a Senate hearing on Monday. Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian Forty-six migrants offloaded at port in April...