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...
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...
Suspected asylum seeker vessel heading for Dampier off WA’s North West coast
Updated 20 Jul 2015, 5:39pm
A suspected asylum seeker boat has been spotted off Dampier in Western Australia's North West region.
A Federal Government source has...
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,...
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...
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...
Vietnam Voice
http://vietnamvoice.org/en/
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...
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)...
Australian Navy returns 46 asylum seekers to Vietnam after intercepting group en route to...
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton addresses the media
PHOTO: Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has refused to comment, citing 'operational matters'
AM By political editor Chris Uhlmann and...