RISE Alert Manus Island:

The Australian Government?s ?humanitarian? solution Manus Island in Papua New Guinea is now the latest offshore camp being used by the Australian government to forcibly transport and indefinitely detain asylum seekers, men, women and children, who arrive in Australia...

First week of 2013, asylum seeker committed suicide

A young Tamil man from Sri Lanka has committed suicide on 4th of Friday in Perth. He was on a bridging visa and was told by some that he would be deported to Sri Lanka. RISE is not surprised by this suicide and is particularly concerned about the safety and wellbeing...