Overnight, PNG Immigration has moved to open a open a new Australian detention facility in Port Moresby, annexed to the Bomana prison. The detention centre has been funded by Australia and has cost over $20 million. Around 50 asylum seekers deemed not to be refugees have been transferred to the new detention facility overnight on […]
A press conference at Parliament House, held by Prime Minister Scott Morrison and PNG Prime Minister James Marape, has seen both leaders repeated the myth that refugees and asylum seekers are not detained on Manus Island. In April 2016, the PNG Supreme Court found that the refugees had been unlawfully transferred to PNG by Australia […]
Two planes in the last two weeks have taken 38 refugees from Papua New Guinea to be resettled in the United States. One carrying 15 refugees left on 26 June, another with 23 refugees left Port Moresby on Tuesday 2 July. It takes the total number of refugees from Manus resettled in the United States […]
Conditions are reaching breaking point on Manus Island. This morning, Monday 24 June, two incidents of self-harm within hours have set the scene for another day of the Manus mental health crisis. One refugee who swallowed a nail clipper, around 6.30am has been taken to the local hospital, although guards initially refused to transport him […]
A 31-year-old Indian asylum seeker has set fire to himself and his room at the Hillside Compound on Manus Island, around 1.00 pm today (Friday 21 June). Photos of the fire in the Hillside compound are below. It is understood that the asylum seeker has suffered burns to his face and hands and has been […]
There have been two more cases, one of attempted suicide and one of serious self-harm, involving refugees in Port Moresby overnight. In the early hours of Monday morning (3 June), one 30-year-old Somali refugee attempted to hang himself off the balcony of the Granville Motel, while a 31-year-old Iranian refugee has badly self–harmed. Both have […]
There has been no let-up in the number of attempted suicide and self-harm incidents among refugees on Manus Island. Local police stepped up patrols around the perimeter of the refugee camps last night (Thursday, 30 May) after a 30-year-old Iranian refugee was cut down by local Manus residents after being found hanging near the Hillside […]
The local Lorengau hospital is turning away refugee cases of self-harm and attempted suicide as the numbers being brought to the hospital continue to rise. Local nurses are saying that the hospital cannot cope and that PIH (Pacific International Hospital), the medical service providers that run a GP clinic in one of the refugee compounds) […]
A heart-breaking suicide note written by Fares, a 31-year-old Sudanese refugee who attempted to hang himself this morning on Manus Island, is just the latest casualty of six years of hopelessness at the hands of the Australian government. “It has been building for six years, but the weekend’s election result has precipitated a crisis that […]
After almost six years of torture and uncertainty on Manus Island, the mental health crisis among refugees and asylum seekers is becoming more acute. While the Iraqi refugee who was left on the cement floor of a police cell, after attempting to hang himself was eventually transferred to hospital in Port Moresby on Thursday 2 […]
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