Three Papua New Guinea Immigration officers have reportedly been arrested and charged over the bashing a refugee on Manus Island.
The trio were charged with assault on Friday, days after refugee Mohsen Sakhravi was punched several times in the face outside a hotel in Lorengau, the Manus capital.
After the alleged bashing, Sakhravi was forced to run in front of a car before being stopped and beaten again while returning to the resettlement centre in East Lorengau, the PNG Post Courier reports.
The trio are expected in court on Monday.
Sakhravi had gone to a local hotel for dinner when a staff member told him immigration officers were waiting outside.
He alleges one officer threatened to kill him during the attack, the paper reports.
Comment is being sought from Sakhravi's lawyer, Ben Lomai.
It is understood refugees are required to be back at their transit centre by dusk.
In early June pictures emerged on the ABC of the Iranian asylum seeker with bruises on his face and neck, taken soon after the alleged attack.
PNG Prime minister Peter O'Neill said in May, 129 asylum seekers housed at the Manus detention centre had been granted refugee status, while more than 400 had opted to return to their home countries.
Refugees are being housed at the transit centre, which is about a 20 minute drive from the detention centre.
No refugee has yet been resettled in PNG.
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