Government lashes out at Amnesty report on Nauru
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has rejected the human-rights group Amnesty International's claims that asylum seekers on Nauru are being kept in conditions amounting to torture. The head of the Department of Immigration has also refuted the allegation, saying he finds it personally offensive.Amnesty International has alleged many of the 400 asylum seekers detained at the Nauru centre have attempted suicide over prison-like conditions they face in indefinite detention. Amnesty says its findings in a new report entitled Island of Despair are based on both desk research and field work in Nauru between July and October this year. This feature reveals more details.
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