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,...
Media Release: JRS deeply concerned over return of 46 Vietnamese asylum seekers
HMAS Choules intercepted and returned 46 Vietnamese asylum seekers who had been found in waters north of Australia.
21 April 2015
Jesuit Refugee Service Australia (JRS)...
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...
Tony Abbott tight-lipped on suspected Vietnamese asylum seeker boat
Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Photo: Andrew Meares
Nicole Hasham
July 21 2015
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is refusing to say how a suspected boat of Vietnamese asylum...
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
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"...
Government quiet over reports Navy seeking to return Vietnamese asylum seekers
Updated 17 Apr 2015, 6:20pm
The Federal Government is refusing to confirm reports that the Navy is attempting to return a large group of asylum...
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...
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...
Vietnamese ‘Boat People’ Attempt to Reach Australia a Second Time
2017-02-08
Three Vietnamese families returned by Australian authorities last year after they tried to illegally migrate there have fled Vietnam a second time by boat...