Vietnamese asylum seekers forcibly returned by Australia face jail
The second boat carrying Vietnamese asylum seekers off the Western Australian coast in July 2015. Photograph: ABC TV
Four people go on trial after four...
Vietnamese asylum seekers secretly held at sea for more than a month, commander tells...
HMAS Choules arrives in Sydney
PHOTO: The asylum seekers were sent back to Vietnam on board HMAS Choules (Royal Australian Navy: Shane Cameron)
By political reporter...
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...
Saving the World, One Life at a Time
By Shira Sebban on October 15, 2016 Asylum Seekers
Social media may have changed the world, but it’s also made campaigning to make at least one...
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...
APRRN STATEMENT: APRRN CONDEMNS AUSTRALIA’S RETURN OF 46 VIETNAMESE ASYLUM SEEKERS FOUND AT SEA
April 28, 2015
The Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN), a network of over 230 civil society organisations and individuals working in 26 countries, condemns...
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,...
Vietnamese asylum seekers returned by plane in the dead of night: reports
Prime Minister Tony Abbott refused to comment on reports the Vietnamese asylum seekers had been returned, saying it wasn't his government's job to "run...
Asylum seekers returned to Vietnam by Australian Navy had claims assessed at sea, UNHCR...
PHOTO: HMAS Choules completed its mission to transfer the group back to Vietnam. (www.navy.gov.au)
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By South East Asia correspondent Samantha Hawley
Updated 21 Apr 2015, 9:29am
The...
Suspected asylum seeker boat ‘unlikely to dock’ after interception, WA water police say
PHOTO: The suspected asylum seeker boat near a cargo ship off Dampier on Monday (ABC TV)
By Charlotte Hamlyn
Updated 21 Jul 2015, 1:30pm
Police assisting in...