Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has rejected Amnesty International's claims that Australia's detention of asylum-seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru amounts to torture as "absolutely false".
Australia sends asylum-seekers trying to reach Australia by boat to Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, but the camps' conditions have been widely criticised by refugee advocates and medical professionals.
The asylum-seekers are blocked from being resettled in Australia even if found to be refugees.
Amnesty said in a report yesterday that asylum-seekers and refugees on Nauru were "driven to absolute despair" and were struggling with an "epidemic of self-harm", adding that their living conditions fit international law's definition of torture.
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18/10/16
Australia sends asylum-seekers trying to reach Australia by boat to Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, but the camps' conditions have been widely criticised by refugee advocates and medical professionals.
The asylum-seekers are blocked from being resettled in Australia even if found to be refugees.
Amnesty said in a report yesterday that asylum-seekers and refugees on Nauru were "driven to absolute despair" and were struggling with an "epidemic of self-harm", adding that their living conditions fit international law's definition of torture.
[rte.ie]
18/10/16
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