
The death of a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee in Papua New Guinea is the sixth fatality on Manus Island in four years.
Two Iranian refugees who were arrested after allegedly being bashed by up to 10 police on Manus Island on New Year's Eve have been released from custody.
SBS World News Radio: There are questions over how hundreds of asylum seekers and refugees from the regional processing centre in Papua New Guinea will be resettled after news the facility will close.
A protest by three Kurdish men who have sewn their lips shut is continuing at Darwin's immigration detention centre.
A spokesman for the Refugee Action Group says an Afghan asylum seeker has avoided being forceably deported for now, after a court decision.
An Iranian asylum seeker who has starved himself for 36 days has been shifted from the detention camp at Nauru to the island's hospital.
A Sri Lankan man has died in Logan Hospital south of Brisbane after his life support was switched off.
EXCLUSIVE: A second cohort of 58 asylum seekers and refugees are due to leave Manus Island to the United States under a controversial resettlement deal, refugees and advocates have told SBS News.
Asylum seekers were still on a hunger strike at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation on Thursday, according to the Refugee Action Coalition, with one still in hospital.
The Refugee Action Coalition says detainees on Manus Island have lost any hope of being resettled to the United States as part of an Australian deal with US president Barack Obama.
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