A newly-leaked document shows that the Australian government is liable for the death of a young Iranian asylum-seeker by delaying his transfer from an offshore detention camp to hospital, Press TV reports. The document, which was revealed on Friday, showed that the 24-year-old Iranian did not receive proper medical attention because the Australian ...

[caption id="attachment_87605" align="alignright" width="180"] Marty Natalegawa (left) shakes hands with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif.[/caption] Iran and Indonesia are preparing to discuss Australias treatment of asylum seekers, following the death of an Iranian man on Manus Island. Reza Barati, 23, died on 17 February when riots ...

Amid an outpouring of grief at a mosque in the dusty southern suburbs of Tehran on Thursday, relatives of the dead Iranian asylum seeker Reza Barati added chilling detail to the moments when he was clubbed to death at the Manus Island detention centre. Speaking after a memorial service attended by as many as 1500, most of them his fellow Iranian Kurds,...

He went to Australia to seek refuge from his land of dreams, where he could have a life and study but instead he was held in captivity and killed, says cousin. The family of the Iranian asylum seeker killed during unrest in a Papua New Guinea detention centre have said they want answers from the Australian government on what happened to him in ...

Australians have rallied in a suburb of Sydney to denounce the killing of a young Iranian asylum seeker in a detention camp on Manus Island off the Papua New Guinea coast. The protesters slammed the governments immigration policies, calling for the resignation of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Similar protests were also held in Melbourne ...

The Iranian man who died during violent clashes on Manus Island earlier this week was a 23-year-old named Reza Barati, who arrived on Christmas Island last July. Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday that Australian diplomats in Iran had contacted his family, who had agreed for his details to be released. Mr Barati, who arrived in ...

Tehran has complained to Australia about the death of an Iranian asylum seeker at a detention center in Papua New Guinea. In a Tuesday meeting with Australian Ambassador to Tehran Paul Foley, Director General of Irans Foreign Ministry on Consular Affairs Seyyed Hossein Mir-Fakhar protested the incident and said that asylum seekers should be treated ...