Day: 21 April 2010

More than 100 refugees, who have been held in a tiny boat near Merak port in Indonesia for over seven months, have been moved to the Tanjung Pinang detention centre. They now face very bad […]

CANBERRA, Australia, April 20 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency has expressed disappointment at the Australian government’s failure to look at alternatives to detention for asylum-seekers arriving by boat who pose no health or security […]