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Saba Vasefi

Dr Saba Vasefi is a multi-award-winning scholar-journalist who writes on the human impacts of Australia’s immigration and border policies. She tweets @SabaVasefi 

April 2022

  • Armin Aslani Faal, 21-year-old Iranian refugee, Pharmacy student at the Sydney University. Photo: Saba Vasefi

    Refugee children want a future in Australia. So why are they excluded from universities?

    Saba Vasefi
    Lack of visas mean even those who finish high school and win scholarships can find themselves barred from further studies

February 2022

  • "Lara"

    ‘Not without my partner’: refugees forced to choose between family in Australia and chance of US visa

    US agreed in 2016 to resettle up to 1,250 people in Australian detention, but won’t guarantee family members qualify

December 2021

  • Masoumeh Torkpour with her son Daniel in Iran, in her last photo with him

    ‘Finally I can buy a candle’: 61-year-old refugee released after nine years in Australian detention

    Woman held since fleeing Iran in 2011 given accommodation in Melbourne hotel after being freed but told she must find new home

August 2021

  • The Maghames family in the Darwin detention centre, August 2021: (L-R) Yaghob, Hajar, Malakeh and Abbas.

    After eight years in Australian detention, the only refugee family held in Darwin centre remains in legal limbo

    Held in small cabins behind the airport, Hajar Maghames says her family has ‘no resources left to withstand the oppressive situation’

July 2021

  • Signage along the perimeter fence of the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation complex

    Refugee hunger strike at Melbourne detention centre ends after 17 days with detainees in hospital

    Group of mostly Iranian detainees are asking to be released into the community while awaiting resettlement

June 2021

  • The woman is at risk of deportation to Nauru despite the island nation’s hospital not being equipped to treat her health issues.

    Female refugee evacuated from Nauru to Australia could be deported despite ill-health

    Woman being held in Melbourne detention says she sinks ‘deeper into the swamp of fear and despair’ every day

November 2020

  • Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert following her sudden release from an Iranian prison after two years.

    Australia refuses to confirm prisoner swap to get Kylie Moore-Gilbert out of Iran

    Scott Morrison won’t confirm Iran’s claims three bombers who tried to kill Israeli diplomats have been freed in return for academic

October 2020

  • Kylie Moore-Gilbert

    Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison

    Moore-Gilbert, who has Australian and British citizenship, had been held in Qarchak, widely regarded as the worst female prison in Iran

September 2020

  • Nima (not his real name) a refugee held on Nauru, whose medical transfer to Australia has been approved – but he remains stuck on the island.

    'I need freedom': refugees approved for resettlement stranded on Nauru as processing stalls

    Delays are causing further suffering for almost 200 refugees whose requests for transfer or resettlement were approved in 2019

August 2020

  • Kylie Moore-Gilbert

    Kylie Moore-Gilbert in good health in Iran with access to medical treatment and books, Dfat says

    But the academic has told human rights advocates that in Qarchak prison ‘I can’t eat anything, I feel so very hopeless … I am so depressed’

July 2020

  • Kylie Moore-Gilbert is serving a 10-year sentence for espionage in Iran

    Kylie Moore-Gilbert granted meeting with Australian ambassador to Iran

  • British-Australian university lecturer Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert

    Kylie Moore-Gilbert: academic 'terrified' and suffering inside Iran's Qarchak women's prison

  • Kylie Moore-Gilbert

    Kylie Moore-Gilbert: British-Australian academic moved to notorious Iran desert prison

  • Masoumeh Torkpour with her son Daniel. It is her last picture with her son in Iran. (At the age 14, her son went to Iran from Canada to visit her for two months)

    ‘My only desire is to hold my son’: the grief of indefinite detention

March 2020

  • The Villawood immigration detention centre in west Sydney

    'We are sitting ducks for Covid 19': asylum seekers write to PM after detainee tested in immigration detention

    Doctors are calling on people to be released from immigration detention, saying it could exacerbate the public health crisis

January 2020

  • Kylie Moore-Gilbert

    Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert begs Scott Morrison to help get her out of Iranian jail

    Letter comes as human rights groups urge foreign governments to take a stronger line with Tehran

November 2019

  • Nauru settlements and hospital

    Dozens of refugee medical transfers held up by Nauru's controversial approval system

  • Peter Dutton

    Full Story
    The fight over medevac and the people caught in the middle

September 2019

  • Refugees Nasreen and her husband Mohammad.

    ‘Feel like I’m living on death row’: refugees forced to choose visa limbo or family separation

    US resettlement offers hope for refugees denied permanent entry to Australia. But there’s a catch

August 2019

  • Venus and her mother on Nauru

    'Australia is a bigger cage': the ongoing trauma of Nauru's child refugees

    Even after finally being transferred to Australia, the scars remain for many young refugees
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