People in indefinite detention across the country held peaceful protests demanding their release.聽Chloe DS reports.
Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA)
Three people聽protested their inhumane treatment on the roof of the聽Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation detention centre. Chloe DS reports.
鈥淢ITA is worse than jail. People are losing their minds,鈥 Joey Tangaloa Taualii, a prisoner in聽Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation聽told a Refugee Action Collective forum. Chris Slee reports.
Ending deportations will be the real character test for the new Labor government, writes Janet Parker.
Detainees on 501s聽continue to be forcibly flown from Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre to Christmas Island聽detention centre. Chloe DS reports.
Activists tried to stop several people from being removed from the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre, likely to be deported.聽Felix Dance reports.
The Refugee Action Collective held a rally outside the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) in Broadmeadows聽to demand freedom for those inside. Chris Slee reports.
Refugee rights protesters gathered outside the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation聽to demand the detainees鈥 freedom.聽Chris Slee, AV and Chloe DS report.
Several hundred people protested to free the refugees imprisoned in the Park Hotel and Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation prisons.
The Refugee Action Collective (Victoria) discussed the 鈥淕od鈥 powers of the immigration minister, so named because of their unlimited nature. Chris Slee reports.
Refugees on hunger strike against聽indefinite聽detention in the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation聽are so ill their聽bodies are shutting down. Chloe DS spoke to聽Arya, one of the hunger strikers.
Chris Petersen and Chloe DS report that 14 refugees have been on hunger strike聽for more than a week in protest at聽their imprisonment.聽
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