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An Iranian refugee who set himself on fire has perished in a Brisbane hospital, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has revealed.

Omid 23-year-old Iranian refugee was taken to Brisbane yesterday with third-degree burns to most of his torso.

In a statement, Mr Dutton said that “proper support” had been supplied to his wife and friends.

“The man was taken to Republic of Nauru Hospital for medical treatment by the Nauruan authorities. He was then transferred to Australia by air ambulance for medical treatment,” he said.

“The man passed away this afternoon in a Brisbane hospital. The department expresses its sympathies to his wife, family and friends.”

Additional opinion was sought from Mr Dutton. The departure will be reported to the Queensland coroner.

 

 

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Iraqi war refugees and Syrian are sleeping by railroad tracks in northern Greece expecting to be permitted to travel on to other northern EU states as well as Germany. Seventy three years back, another group heading for an entirely different future: the Nazi death camps traversed these tracks.

North wasn’t a way the Jews wished to be heading.

Injustices and moving, unkind historic ironies abound in the chaos of the present refugee crisis roiling the Middle East as well as Europe — ghostly echoes of a previous Europeans believed they’d long ago exorcised that’s panicking their politicians. Found in an important crossroads between mainland Europe as well as the Mideast, Greece and its Balkan neighbors – now throwing up coils of razor sharp wire on their frontiers and militarizing their edges to prevent asylum seekers – are no strangers to enormous flows of war refugees trying to find a strong basis nor to forcible displacements.

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The bodies of nine people, including two babies, have been discovered drowned off the coast of western Turkey, after a boat carrying people to Greece partially capsized, the Turkish coastguard said in a statement. The fibreglass vessel somewhat capsized on Tuesday at 05.35 local time (03.35 GMT) off the coast of Seferihisar in Izmir province, close to the Greek island of Samos. Two individuals were rescued swimming to the coast, the coastguard said.A crackdown on illegal crossing and also the dangerous winter conditions have failed to discourage tens of thousands from boarding flimsy boats and attempting to cross the Mediterranean waves in the first couple of weeks of the entire year.

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THE DANISH government have now been compared after pushing through contentious strategies to take jewellery and cash from refugees.

Migrants may be required to hand over valuables if they arrive in the country with more than 10,000 kroner – around GBP1,000.

The original plans have been watered down, with refugees no longer required to give up sentimental things like wedding rings, last month after criticism when it was announced.

But the Danes have been accused of conduct like that of Nazi Germany, who infamously stripped Jews of their possessions at concentration camps during the Holocaust.

The UN refugee agency UNHCR said it “could fuel fear, xenophobia and similar limitations that will reduce – rather than expand – the asylum space internationally”.

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Germany continues to be sending a growing variety of migrants back every day because the start of the month, Austrian authorities say.

Many had no files that are valid, authorities said, whilst others didn’t wish to apply for asylum in Germany but in other nations in Scandinavia.

New Year’s Eve assaults on girls in Cologne, attributed on migrants, have put pressure.

The majority of those aren’t Syrians, who generally get asylum.

Instead, they may be migrants mainly from Afghanistan along with Algeria and Morocco, Austrian authorities said.

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Authorities in the German city of Leipzig made 211 arrests after far right supporters vandalised buildings and burned vehicles on the outskirts of an “anti-Islamisation” rally.

The unrest came as thousands of activists protested calmly.

They attribute the record inflow of refugees for sexual violence against women at New Year’s Eve festivities in Germany.

Officials say the perpetrators of assaults in Cologne were nearly entirely from a migrant background.

Clear retaliatory strikes in the cathedral city on Sunday, in which at least 11 individuals from Guinea, Syria and Pakistan were damage, were condemned by the authorities inexcusable.

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