PNG to release Manus inquiry findings, launch coronial inquest

Reports of two investigations into the violent riots at the Manus Island detention centre will be made public, Papua New Guinea’s Foreign Affairs Minister Rimbink Pato says.

Rimbink Pato, pictured with Julie Bishop, has announced that reports into investigations at Manus Island will be made public. (AAP).

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Mr Pato told local media PNG Edge that the government would make public two ongoing investigations into riots at the Manus Island detention centre, which left Iranian asylum seeker Reza Berati dead.

One report was conducted by the PNG police and the other report is investigating the detention centre's administration. 

Mr Pato said the government will also commission a Coronor’s inquest into the riot once the investigations had been completed.

“We are trying to exercise leadership in what’s regional and global issues and we want to make sure we are doing what is right by the conventions and international rules and protocols in relation to asylum seekers and refugees, how they should be taken care of,” Mr Pato told PNG Edge.

He said he hoped the reports would be finished within “a reasonable time”, but provided no timeframe.