News: asylum seekers

06/15/2011 | BBC
About 20 Tamil asylum seekers facing the prospect of being deported from Britain to Sri Lanka tell the BBC that their lives are in danger.
03/08/2011 | Washington Post
Canada orders a Tamil migrant to be deported because of his past with the Tamil Tigers rebels
06/08/2010 | Voice of America
The Australian government is transferring scores of asylum seekers to an old outback mining camp in an effort to ease crowding at its main refugee processing center on Christmas Island.
04/30/2010 | The Boston Globe
Baskaran Balasundaram arrived at Logan International Airport in summer 2008 with a story of torture and survival, seeking refuge from a violent civil war in his native Sri Lanka.
04/18/2010 | ColomboPage
Apr 18, Colombo: The Australian government is planning to re-open a detention center at the Curtin Air Base in Western Australia to hold Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers whose applications for refugee status have been suspended