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...
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...
Lụa and Loan, Two Asylum Seekers Rejected by Australia
Kathy Triệu
A Look Inside
Published July 19, 2017 in Episode 76
41-year-old Trần Thị Lụa is speaking to me from a detention center in Indonesia.
“It’s very...
Letter from Human Rights Law Centre in support of Vietnamese asylum seekers
17 April 2015
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations Office at Geneva
8-14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10, SWITZERLAND
By email: [email protected]
To: Special...
Vietnamese asylum seeker returned by Australia says ‘a bullet would be better’
Vietnamese asylum seeker Tran Thi Lua stands together with her three children.
PHOTO: Vietnamese asylum seeker Tran Thi Lua and her three children. (Supplied:...
Australia returned 46 asylum seekers to Vietnam, says immigration minister
An Australian navy boat (left) shadowing a boat believed to be carrying asylum seekers in July 2012. Photograph: BASARNAS/AFP/Getty Images
Paul Farrell
Tuesday 5 May 2015...
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 ‘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...
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"...