Iraqi refugee decided to leave Nauru after five years of misery

A supplied image of a refugee looking out to the sea on Manus Island.

50 refugees held in offshore detention camps on Manus Island and Nauru are leaving for the US. (AAP) Source: AAP

Abbas Al-Ali, 39 years, an Iraqi asylum seeker and a five years detainee at an Australian Immigration and Border Protection’s center on the Pacific island Nauru decided and left it voluntarily on Wednesday 4 April 2018 to go back to his homeland Iraq, a place he once fled to look for security.



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