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...
Kids ‘orphaned’ as Vietnam jails parents over asylum bid
Ms Loan with her four children outside courthouse where her appeal against a three-year sentence was rejected.
AMANDA HODGE, NGA L.H. NGUYEN, The Australian,
12:00AM...
Fate of Vietnamese Asylum Seeker Children Hangs in the Balance
A group of Vietnamese asylum seekers, including 12 children, have tried to reach Australia by boat for the second time, writes Shira Sebban, 16...
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...
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 who came on boats to Australia jailed in Vietnam, advocacy group says
PHOTO: The asylum seeker boat from Vietnam was detected at the beginning of June. (Supplied)
PM By Peta Donald
Posted 14 Nov 2016, 7:03pm
STORY: Dutton, Turnbull...
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...
Retired US Ambassador Visits Vietnamese Asylum Seekers in Indonesian Detention
Retired US Ambassador Grover Joseph Rees recently visited the 18 Vietnamese asylum seekers in detention in Kuningan, South Jakarta.
The former US Ambassador to East...
We’re a Disparate Group of Australians Doing the Work Our Government Won’t
When I heard that a woman who attempted to seek asylum in Australia but had her boat returned to Vietnam was about to be...
Turned back by Australia, Vietnamese recognised as refugees in Indonesia
JUNE 11 2017
Shira Sebban
Ever since they were forcibly returned by Australia to Vietnam two years ago, mother-of-four Tran Thi Thanh Loan and mother-of-three Tran...