Ben Doherty

Ben Doherty

Ben Doherty is Fairfax Media's South Asia correspondent. From Delhi, his brief ranges north and west to Pakistan and Afghanistan, south to Sri Lanka and east to Bangladesh, Nepal and Burma. He is a former Melbourne and Canberra reporter for The Age and won the 2008 Walkley award for Young Australian Print Journalist of the Year.

Australia caught in Sri Lanka refugee crossfire

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Ben Doherty AUSTRALIA'S role in stopping Sri Lankan asylum seekers fleeing the country has been criticised by rights groups as a breach of its international legal obligations, potentially sending people back to...

Sent home to 'arrest, torture'

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Ben Doherty Sri Lankan asylum seekers rejected by Australia and sent home say they have been arrested, imprisoned without trial and tortured.

Tamils: why we get on the boats

Sangita and her sister Aahna cry for asylum seekers who have left her village. Her brother was jailed after he tried to leave.

Ben Doherty ON A remote stretch of Sri Lanka's west coast lies the village that wants to come to Australia.

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We must ensure Taliban can't cruel pitch

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Ben Doherty Australia will play Afghanistan, for the first time, in a cricket match in Sharjah next month.

Taliban execution barbaric, says Carr

This frame grab received on July 8, 2012, taken from an undated video which was handed over by a Qol villager to the Parwan provincial government, shows a 22 year old woman named as Najiba (C) sitting at the edge of a ditch shortly before being executed by gunfire in Qol village, Parwan province, north of Kabul. Najiba was married to a member of a hardline Taliban militant group and was accused of adultery with a Taliban commander, Parwan provincial spokeswoman Roshna Khalid told AFP on July 8. The video has been condemned by the government as un-Islamic and inhuman. Public executions of alleged adulterers were common when the Taliban regime was in power from 1996 until 2001, when they were ousted by a US-led invasion for harbouring Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks. AFP PHOTO ---- EDITORS NOTE ---- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE MANDATORY CREDIT

Dylan Welch, Ben Doherty Foreign Minister joins international chorus of condemnation over shooting execution.

Swift rescue averts second asylum boat disaster

The latest asylum seeker boat and prior to its capsize

Michael Bachelard, Rory Callinan, Ben Doherty AUSTRALIAN authorities acted quickly to implement a rescue plan for the boat foundering at sea yesterday, apparently learning their lesson from the debacle last week when it took days to come to the...

India refugee boat racket

Currently people who crew people-smuggling boats must be jailed for a minimum of five years.

Ben Doherty, Som Patidar People-smuggling network targets Tamil refugees in southern India, promising safe passage and Australian citizenship.

Ousted president seeks help from Australia

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed

Ben Doherty Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, deposed in a sudden military-led coup in February, calls for Australian help in pushing for fresh elections in the troubled archipelago.

Sri Lankan secret police behind kidnap, torture, says campaigner

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Ben Doherty, Leesha Mckenny THE Australian man allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint, sexually assaulted and tortured in Sri Lanka - he claims by the country's secret police - believes he would have been killed if not for Australian...

Abducted man believes diplomats saved him from death

Premakumar Gunaratnam says he is certain his captors in Sri Lanka planned to kill him.

Ben Doherty An Australian man who says he was kidnapped at gunpoint, sexually assaulted and tortured in Sri Lanka believes he would have been killed if not for Australian diplomatic intervention.

Family fears father among the 'disappeared' in Sri Lanka

Somaratna

Ben Doherty, Dylan Welch THE men came an hour before dawn on Saturday, carrying guns but wearing no uniforms, to tell the neighbours of Premakumar Gunaratnam to keep quiet.

Aid worker hit in revenge for Afghan deaths, says Taliban

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Ben Doherty THE attack on an Australian aid worker in Afghanistan was retribution for the night-time murder of 17 unarmed Afghan civilians by US soldier Robert Bales, the Taliban has said.

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