Sri lankan couple

A couple are fearing for the safety of their children after they were ordered to depart Australia. Sri Lankan couple Priya and Nadesalingam received the notice to depart the country on Friday after losing their appeal against being sent out of the country in the Federal Court. Friend Angela Fredericks claims the family is 'utterly distraught' about receiving the notice to leave the country by as early as Tuesday. A family is terrified for the safety of their babies after they were allegedly issued with an order to depart Australia.

Dubai: How does one deal with so much hate? He and his wife, Navroop K. Chari, had just escaped the horrific Easter bombings that took place in the island country. The Dubai-based manager at a health insurance firm and his wife were in Sri Lanka for a business trip. They were staying at the Cinnamon Grand hotel, one of the eight places where the bombings took place. Personally, this really hits me hard as I witnessed the Mumbai attacks back in and now this.

The deportation of a two-year-old Tamil asylum seeker has been put on hold until next Wednesday after a federal court ruled on Friday to delay the deportation until her case is heard. Federal court justice Mordechai Bromberg delayed her deportation on Friday morning, the latest in a series of dramatic developments, which began when the family of four was put on a non-commercial flight from Melbourne bound for Sri Lanka about 11pm on Thursday. A federal circuit court judge granted a last-minute temporary injunction after the plane landed in Darwin early on Friday and Priya, her husband, Nadesalingam, and their two Australian-born daughters were taken to accommodation, according to a family friend who was in contact with them by phone.

Melbourne: A Tamil family of four -- including two Australia-born toddlers -- have been moved to a remote island off the coast of Indonesia, despite a court order blocking deportation, their lawyer said on Saturday. The family -- who are fighting to remain in Australia because they fear persecution in Sri Lanka -- were moved to Christmas Island detention facility overnight, lawyer Carina Ford said, speaking in Melbourne. The island is a remote Australian territory around kilometres miles south of Java.