Papua New Guinea’s Police Storm Manus Island Refugee Camp
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Papua New Guinea’s Police Storm Manus Island Refugee Camp
22, 2017
SYDNEY, Australia — The authorities in Papua New Guinea confronted asylum seekers on Thursday inside a controversial detention center on Manus Island, ordering hundreds of detainees to leave and destroying their belongings in an attempt to end a standoff at the camp
that has drawn international scrutiny to Australia’s offshore detention policy.
Jana Favero said that I find it very hard to believe anything
that the immigration minister is saying at this stage — that’s based on the fact that I was at the camp on Manus Island last week,
Boochani said that They said, ‘You must leave this prison camp.’
Just hours after Mr. Boochani said he feared arrest, asylum seekers on the island said he had been taken from the camp by the authorities.
Mr. Boochani said that At this moment that I’m talking with you, I’m in the toilet,
It comes three weeks after Australia officially closed the camp on Oct. 31, cutting off electricity, food
and water as hundreds of the detainees, all of whom are men, refused to leave.
22, 2017
SYDNEY, Australia — The authorities in Papua New Guinea confronted asylum seekers on Thursday inside a controversial detention center on Manus Island, ordering hundreds of detainees to leave and destroying their belongings in an attempt to end a standoff at the camp
that has drawn international scrutiny to Australia’s offshore detention policy.
Jana Favero said that I find it very hard to believe anything
that the immigration minister is saying at this stage — that’s based on the fact that I was at the camp on Manus Island last week,
Boochani said that They said, ‘You must leave this prison camp.’
Just hours after Mr. Boochani said he feared arrest, asylum seekers on the island said he had been taken from the camp by the authorities.
Mr. Boochani said that At this moment that I’m talking with you, I’m in the toilet,
It comes three weeks after Australia officially closed the camp on Oct. 31, cutting off electricity, food
and water as hundreds of the detainees, all of whom are men, refused to leave.