#IAmWatching Manus
Nov. 19th, 2017 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyThe eyes of the world are watching now: This is Manus Island, a photoessay from the New York Times (18 November 2017). An additional pressure on Manus has been the arrival of people displaced by climate change.
Offshore detention horrors hidden to 'numb public into submission': lawyer (news.com.au, 16 November 2017) Daniel Webb: "We’re not talking about conditions that are a bit uncomfortable; we’re talking about a level of suffering and torment that is so severe that it creates a risk of suicide that is so ever-present that every single guard for every single minute of every single day has got to have a Hoffman knife on them ready to cut someone down who’s trying to kill themselves."
Behrouz Boochani reports that locals angered by noisy generators at the new Hillside Haus detention centre came in and turned them off, leaving detainees without light or air conditioning. Police instructed security at the site not to turn them back on.
Australian activist Phoebe Crane ended her courageous hunger strike after 37 days.
Offshore detention horrors hidden to 'numb public into submission': lawyer (news.com.au, 16 November 2017) Daniel Webb: "We’re not talking about conditions that are a bit uncomfortable; we’re talking about a level of suffering and torment that is so severe that it creates a risk of suicide that is so ever-present that every single guard for every single minute of every single day has got to have a Hoffman knife on them ready to cut someone down who’s trying to kill themselves."
Behrouz Boochani reports that locals angered by noisy generators at the new Hillside Haus detention centre came in and turned them off, leaving detainees without light or air conditioning. Police instructed security at the site not to turn them back on.
Australian activist Phoebe Crane ended her courageous hunger strike after 37 days.
