PIAC made a submission to the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or...
The United Nations’ torture prevention watchdog has been urged to investigate Australia’s use of handcuffs on asylum seekers when seeking...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) says a comprehensive review of handcuffing in Australia’s onshore immigration detention system is urgently...
Following advocacy by PIAC, a refugee with a painful health condition has finally received treatment after an almost three-year ordeal....
Lucy Geddes, PIAC Senior Solicitor, discusses the onus on our Government to provide medical care to those in asylum detention.
Two years after the repeal of Medevac laws, asylum seekers who were transferred from Manus Island and Naru are still...
‘The continued handcuffing of asylum seekers to attend minor civil court matters is “humiliating” and creates a barrier to accessing...
Doctors say handcuffed asylum seeker patients are being “paraded like criminals” through hospital wards and humiliated as they sit shackled...
Introduction by Croakey: A landmark test case is highlighting the excessive use of force in Australian immigration detention centres, according to...
