One of the detainees interviewed by Amnesty Source: Supplied
The Australian government is being accused of deliberately inflicting suffering on people being held in immigration detention on Nauru. Rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have conducted a joint covert investigation with two of their representatives spending 12 days on the island last month. (July) The report claims detainees are routinely neglected and sometimes denied medical care and are subject to abuse and violence from Nauruans. Maheswaran Prabaharan reports in Tamil, feature prepared for SBS News by Greg Dyett.
The Australian government is being accused of deliberately inflicting suffering on people being held in immigration detention on Nauru. Rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have conducted a joint covert investigation with two of their representatives spending 12 days on the island last month. (July) The report claims detainees are routinely neglected and sometimes denied medical care and are subject to abuse and violence from Nauruans. Maheswaran Prabaharan reports in Tamil, feature prepared for SBS News by Greg Dyett.
