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Refugee from Sudan Abdul Aziz Adam has been on Manus Island for more than four years The current situation at the detention centre is just like hell. We are living in a situation where we don't ...

He is the sixth man to die on Manus Island since the detention centre was opened in 2012, according to Monash University’s Australian Border Deaths database. Eaten Fish (Ali Durrani), a 25-year-old ...

Police in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have moved about 40 refugees and asylum seekers from a former Australian-run detention centre on Manus Island. But more than 300 others remain. They have been ...

When Australia began forcibly moving people out of Manus Island detention centre to East Lorengau and Port Moresby in August, peaceful protests were launched in the detention centre. When Australia ...

After introducing a hardline immigration policy over a decade ago, Australia started sending asylum seekers intercepted at sea to detention camps on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island for ...

"The imposition of the detention centre on Manus Island has created local tensions from the very start," he said. "Lack of transparency about resettlement has added to the tensions." The breakout ...

Faysal Ishak Ahmed, a 27-year-old asylum-seeker who fled war in Sudan, was detained by the Australian government in the now-shuttered offshore detention centre on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea ...

We act in the wake of the death of Reza Berati from inside Manus Island detention centre on February 17. We are in urgent political circumstances with a government that is stepping up their ...

It marks the end of one of the most controversial chapters in Australia's border policy history but critics say those now on the Papua New Guinea mainland remain at risk. Sign up now for the ...