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...
Australia-Vietnam 2016 Human Rights Dialogue: Civil Society Consultation
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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...