Aboriginal deaths in custody Archives

NSW deaths in custody – when will someone be held accountable?

A display of hands planted in the lawns in front of Parliament House in protest of Aboriginal deaths in custody

Responding to news that two Indigenous people died in custody in NSW in the past week, Amnesty International Australia Indigenous Rights Lead Nolan Hunter said: “We’re coming up to the thirty year anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths In Custody (RCIADIC) and it feels as though very little has changed. “For example, recommendation …

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Independent investigation needed into the latest Indigenous death in custody

Protestors chant and bend down on their knees. They hold handmade red, yellow and black signs saying 'stop don't shoot' and Black Lives Matter. Woman in front raises her fist and is wearing an Aboriginal flag tshirt.

The latest death in custody of an Aboriginal woman in a Brisbane watch house this week is a shameful legacy of the government’s inaction on recommendations made in the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Amnesty International said. There have been more than 400 Indigenous deaths in custody since the Royal Commission made …

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Australia: Aboriginal boys’ deaths could have been prevented

Amnesty International has today expressed sincere condolences to the families of five teenage boys who were chased by police in Perth overnight, tragically ending in the passing of two Aboriginal boys who drowned in the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River). Police are still searching for a third boy. Alison Gibbins, Amnesty International Australia Deputy National Director, …

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