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,...
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...
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...
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...
Fears returned Vietnamese asylum seekers are being grilled in police detention
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton. Photo: Andrew Meares
Heath Aston
APRIL 23 2015
Asylum seekers who were returned to Vietnam by the Australian Navy last week are...
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...
UN informed of Australia’s secretive return of Vietnamese asylum seekers
"Australia should never return a refugee to persecution": Daniel Webb of the Human Rights Law Centre. April 21, 2015
The Australian Government has secretly returned 46...