A thoughtful and definitive piece in Michael West Media by Alison and our amazing colleague, Janet Pelly.
michaelwest.com.au/pay-to-depor...

These prisons are beyond horrific. Chances are our client, Lolita, is in one of these places (we don't know as very little has been done by the Australian government, despite her being spirited out of our country).

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Mo is our client. He has been stuck in Mongolia now for many years, and his health is deteriorating. Mo is a dual Australian and British citizen, but his family fear he will die before he can return to Australia and get medical treatment.
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If FIFA continues this stance, they are helping the Taliban suppress women. This team didn't survive being shot at, assaulted & climbing through an open sewer to reach safety just for FIFA to deny them recognition. These women & their supporters will keep fighting
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I have made representations to various UN bodies regarding Mo Munshi's torture and current travel ban in Mongolia.
Mo Munshi will die in Mongolia unless the governments of Australia and the UK step up and work with the Mongolians to bring him home.
#BringMoHome

Once again, the Australian government and its Home Affairs and Immigration departments have resorted to deliberately targeting transgender people, including detention, harassment within detention and unfair deportation.

Alison spoke to SBS News on the weekend about her recent trip to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention session in Geneva, and about the three Australians detained indefinitely overseas.
You can listen here: www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast...

A gay Afghan man with complex PTSD and a history of torture can be deported to an African country where he doesn’t speak the language and faces homophobic attitudes and social isolation. The only reason he is there is the $$$$$$ paid by the Australian taxpayer.

An Iranian scientist could be refused entry to deliver a keynote address at a global conference in Sydney because her government refuses to take asylum seekers (no relation to her) who are too fearful to return.

A person who has served their sentence in prison and been warehoused in detention for years can be traded to a country for $$ because they can’t be returned to their country of birth. Then that country could deport or detain them at will.

Mobile phones will be confiscated from people in detention to avoid trafficking drugs into detention. In the process, all means of private communication are stripped away.

A single parent can be jailed for refusing deportation, while their citizen child stays in the community. Where exactly?

What’s the reality of the 3 migration bills that passed in a sprint last night?
In short, to win an election, Labor has flipped its platform and taken a sledgehammer to the human rights of 80,000 people, the vast majority who’ve lived in Australia for 10+ years.
Sone examples: 🧵

Human Rights For All's Alison Battisson was invited to appear before a closed session of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in Geneva earlier in the week to speak on Australia's continuing hard line on immigration detention.

Our client is free after 6 years’ detention, following a Federal Court decision (BRO18) that will likely impact others.
Rapier J noted the Minister did not properly consider the matter in light of his long detention, the ‘obligation to remove (him) from detention as soon as reasonably practicable...