Refugees: Nauru
Dec. 7th, 2014 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyAs you'll remember, when Save the Children workers reported physical and sexual abuse at the detention centre on Nauru, some of it aimed at children, the government accused the workers of inventing the reports and coaching children in self-harm. The counter-accusation came from a report by Transfield - "the very outfit whose employees were accused of molestation." ETA: Immigration Minister Scott Morrison referred the Save the Children workers to the Federal Police under Section 70 of the Crimes Act, which prohibits government employees releasing information to non-government employees. Splendidly, the Greens referred him for leaking the details of the Transfield report to the Daily Telegaph.
At the same time, 29 unaccompanied kids aged 15-17, who had been found to be refugees, were removed from detention because of the danger to them. In the Nauruan community they have been threatened with violence and some have been severely beaten. (ETA: Nauru plans to allow detainees the freedom of the island during the day. I hope "the help of police" will mean protection from violence.)
A female asylum seeker reported in November that she was raped twice in Nauru's family compound. She states the alleged rapist was given a visa immediately after her complaint in an attempt to cover up the incidents.
(In an unrelated case in Australia, an asylum seeker accused of rape was almost deported without trial. In this case, the Minister's use of his arbitrary powers would have denied the basic process of justice to both the alleged rapist and his alleged victim.)
ETA:
Open letter from a detainee: Living in the hell called Nauru
Presumably in response to allegations from both Nauru and Manus, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison announced the formation of the Detention Assurance Team. As this will be part of the Immigration Department tbh I don't have high hopes for it.
Two heavily pregnant refugee women, flown to Darwin to give birth, staged a three-day protest aboard a bus against their being returned to Nauru.
ETA:
From August: refugees resettled on Nauru describe themselves as having been "abandoned to live like animals in the jungle" without clean water, food, or other basic necessities.
At the same time, 29 unaccompanied kids aged 15-17, who had been found to be refugees, were removed from detention because of the danger to them. In the Nauruan community they have been threatened with violence and some have been severely beaten. (ETA: Nauru plans to allow detainees the freedom of the island during the day. I hope "the help of police" will mean protection from violence.)
A female asylum seeker reported in November that she was raped twice in Nauru's family compound. She states the alleged rapist was given a visa immediately after her complaint in an attempt to cover up the incidents.
(In an unrelated case in Australia, an asylum seeker accused of rape was almost deported without trial. In this case, the Minister's use of his arbitrary powers would have denied the basic process of justice to both the alleged rapist and his alleged victim.)
ETA:
Open letter from a detainee: Living in the hell called Nauru
Presumably in response to allegations from both Nauru and Manus, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison announced the formation of the Detention Assurance Team. As this will be part of the Immigration Department tbh I don't have high hopes for it.
Two heavily pregnant refugee women, flown to Darwin to give birth, staged a three-day protest aboard a bus against their being returned to Nauru.
ETA:
From August: refugees resettled on Nauru describe themselves as having been "abandoned to live like animals in the jungle" without clean water, food, or other basic necessities.
