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![OZschwitz minister urged to halt refugee transfers to PNG concentration camp Vide](https://2img.net/i/fa/vide.gif) | Subject: OZschwitz minister urged to halt refugee transfers to PNG concentration camp Sun Feb 03, 2013 6:41 pm | |
| A scathing report on conditions on Manus Island has urged incoming Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor to stop sending asylum seekers to the remote Papua New Guinea site until sweeping recommendations are considered.
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The report by the United Nations refugee agency accuses the Australian and PNG governments of being in breach of international treaty obligations and expresses particular alarm at the plight of children in the facility. Its release coincides with the 10th transfer of asylum seekers to the offshore processing centre, which now holds 254 asylum seekers, 34 of them children.
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who visited the centre last week, supported the recommendations, warning of outbreaks of self-harm and riots if conditions are not improved. "They're being treated like animals at the moment, including the children," Senator Hanson-Young told Fairfax Media.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/minister-urged-to-halt-refugee-transfers-to-png-20130203-2dsj0.html#ixzz2JsmMw5Wg
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