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Marise Payne repeats calls for China to end arbitrary detention after internal documents reveal Xi Jinping’s call to ‘show no mercy’ in XinjiangAustralia’s foreign affairs minister has labelled new details of China’s mass internment of Uighurs “disturb…
Andrew Hastie and James Paterson have been openly critical of Chinese regime The Chinese embassy in Canberra has called on two Liberal MPs to “repent and redress their mistakes” after they were barred from visiting Beijing for a study tour.WA Liberal M…
After six hellish years inside Australia’s offshore detention regime, Boochani reflects on the country that rejected him, his new-found freedom and the friends he left behindSupport our independent journalism with a one-off or recurring contribution“On…
Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker arrives in Christchurch for a literary festivalNew Zealand’s immigration service has said the Kurdish-Iranian asylum seeker and journalist Behrouz Boochani will not get special treatment if he overstays his visitor visa.Bo…
University writes to students on exchange in Hong Kong as campuses become focus of battles between police and protestersThe University of Sydney has urged Australian students on exchange in Hong Kong to return home as pro-democracy protests intensify o…
How poignant that Behrouz was freed from Australia’s grip and welcomed by Christchurch, a city that knows prejudice only too wellToday our world is a little freer, a little fairer, and a little more hopeful. Today, one less innocent man is incarcerated…
Official reception highlights New Zealand’s differences with Australia over immigrationThe city of Christchurch has welcomed Behrouz Boochani with a civic reception and a traditional Māori mihi whakatau – a formal welcome – as his presence, and liberty…
Geoffrey Muecke says Nauruan government regarded group as guilty without ensuring a fair trialAustralian judge Geoffrey Muecke is reluctant to go on the record. It is “anathema” to him that any judge, retired or active, would speak publicly on a case t…
Militant group says prisoner exchange with Afghan government has not happenedAn Australian and an American professor in Taliban custody who were supposed to be freed in a prisoner exchange this week are still yet to be released, according to a spokesma…
Militant group says prisoner exchange with Afghan government has not happenedAn Australian and an American professor in Taliban custody who were supposed to be freed in a prisoner exchange this week are still yet to be released, according to a spokesma…
Intercepts suggest separatists sought guidance from Russia before jet was shot down Dutch-led investigators have released new recordings of intercepted telephone calls that show separatist leaders in Ukraine requesting military support and political gu…
Afghan president Ghani hopes move will help secure release of American and AustralianAfghanistan’s president says he has ordered the release of three Taliban fighters in an effort to persuade the insurgent group to free a kidnapped American and Austral…
Sydney man Chau Van Kham, 70, found guilty over his membership of the Viet Tan political partyA Sydney retiree has been convicted of terrorism and jailed for 12 years by a Vietnamese court, in a judgment human rights advocates have described as “essent…
Squire Jeremiah and Rutherford Jeremiah are among the group set to face a new trial beginning on MondayTwo members of the so-called Nauru 19 have sought asylum in Australia ahead of a retrial this week. Lawyers say the trial has been rigged against the…
Man who spent nine weeks locked up inside Australian-funded centre in Port Moresby describes hunger, isolation and lack of legal support Ariobarzan endured six years of detention inside and outside the barbed wire on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island in …