OCEANIA: HUMAN RIGHTS
Electronic sit-in to support Nauru Hunger Strikers
04 Jan 2004 13:06 GMTTo protest the situation of hunger strikers on NAURU an Electronic sit-in has been called for 9am Monday 5th January (GMT +11.00 see GMT Time Converter) at the Australian Immigration Department and the Australian Liberal Party websites via this site, an new alternate site or by download of two html files. Protests can also be made at Australian Government Embassies over the treatment of the asylum seekers on Nauru. Refugee advocates associated with the Nauru Wire site do not support nor condone the virtual sit-in, due to possible legal ramifications in Australia. Read more on Electronic civil disobedience in this book or Stefan Wray's 'essay'.
Nauru Hunger StrikerIn a letter to Australian Immigration Authorities four of the refugees on hungerstrike have said they expect to die. Refugee advocates have initiated a campaign to ask for visas and travel to Nauru, although visitors to Nauru are being strictly controlled with specific visa refusals for lawyers, journalists and refugee advocates. Two New Zealand journalists did manage to use a travel loophole to visit Nauru and interview asylum seekers. (Read the latest news and updates for Jan 3.)
[Melbourne IMC | Hungerstrike Media Releases | Australian Embassies]
html code doesn't work..
dischtl 04.Jan.2004 13:58
The html code of "frameset.html" contained in "freedom.zip" is not working.
Doesn't properly refresh the sites and takes the sites from the browser cache.
lines missing/incorrect are:
meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache"
META http-equiv="refresh" content ="1;url=frameset.html"
I attached the modified file "frameset.html" please use this instead - it works.
baxter hunger strike mainland aus, south australia
safads 07.Jan.2004 23:08
on abc local radio (adelaide, 8.30am slot) this
morning there was an i/v with an iranian refugee
(using nick) in baxter who reported on a hunger strike
there
he said 4 refugees on strike (3 of them iranian), one
of whom has been on strike for 44 days taking only
water
hunger strikers put in Management unit
one made a suicide attempt, taking 80 pills
they are striking in reaction to the forcible
deportation possibility