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PostSubject: Amnesty International report accuses Manus Island detention centre of humiliating asylum seekers    Amnesty International report accuses Manus Island detention centre of humiliating asylum seekers   Icon_minitimeWed Dec 11, 2013 6:07 pm

Asylum seekers are being subjected to humiliating treatment and appalling conditions on the Manus Island detention centre in a deliberate effort to pressure them to go back to where they came from, Amnesty International has alleged.

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A report by the agency details how asylum seekers are being held in a ''prison-like regime'', in cramped compounds in stifling heat while being denied sufficient water and adequate medical help.

The findings in a 118-page report, based on a five-day visit to the centre last month, allege breaches of international and domestic law and are consistent with those of the UN refugee agency after a similar visit in late October. But they have been dismissed by the Australian and PNG governments, with the PNG Immigration Minister, Rimbink Pato saying in Canberra on Wednesday: ''At the present time I think we have a pretty good facility there.''
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After talks involving ministers from the two countries in Canberra, Mr Pato and Australia's Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, denied the detention of more than 1000 asylum seekers in PNG was in breach of international law.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/amnesty-international-report-accuses-manus-island-detention-centre-of-humiliating-asylum-seekers-20131211-2z6ft.html#ixzz2nD7KY4pr
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