A Well Founded Fear
URGENT ACTION ALERT: Please write to the Immigration Minister!
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The Edmund Rice Centre documentary "A Well Founded Fear"
We have composed a pre-written letter to the Immigration Minister, Senator Chris Evans, following the screening on SBS television, on 19 November 2008, of the Edmund Rice Centre documentary "A Well Founded Fear".
Background info and Letter: http://www.safecom.org.au/nauru-cases.htm
"The Edmund Rice Centre has documented the deaths of "as many as nine men returned from Nauru" and "three children of people sent back from Nauru". According to Phil Glendenning, as many as 20 returnees from the Pacific Solution could have been killed." (David Corlett)
Background info and Letter: http://www.safecom.org.au/nauru-cases.htm
Officials of the Immigration Department as well as staff of the International Organisation for Migration have told hundreds of asylum seekers on Nauru as far back in 2003, not just that 'Afghanistan was safe to go back to', but more disturbingly, they have applied undue pressure, coercion, and even veiled threats in their attempts to force those asylum seekers to accept the 'repatriation package' of $2,000, offered to those Afghan asylum seekers if they would sign up to be deported back to Afghanistan.
Background info and Letter: http://www.safecom.org.au/nauru-cases.htm
The evidence of both case mismanagement as well as errors in refugee assessment is strong, not just as portrayed by the Edmund Rice Centre work and documentary, but also from other facts: for example, 20 children were deported, amongst them seven 'unaccompanied minors', who had been scheduled to go to New Zealand - but a mistake was made, and they were instead deported back to Afghanistan.
Background info and Letter: http://www.safecom.org.au/nauru-cases.htm
Declaration: Project SafeCom is a non-profit community organisation in Western Australia which has operated a full-time operations office since December 2001. Project SafeCom does not receive public funding, but its entire operation is supported from donations and pledges, through the sale of books and other items through its website, from the proceeds of fundraisers and public events, and from membership fees and payments.
To donate to us, see http://www.safecom.org.au/pre-donate.htm
Very best wishes,
Jack H Smit
Project SafeCom Inc.
http://www.safecom.org.au/
P.O. Box 364
Narrogin WA 6312
phone (08) 9881-5651
mobile 0417 090 130
Email: coordinator@safecom.org.au
ABN 22 801 694 259
