Go the Australian Human Rights Commission, always onto it ... "The conditions on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea have been described by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as harsh and below international standards. The impacts of prolonged detention on asylum seekers who were last detained on Nauru and Manus Island are well documented,” Professor Triggs said. “Some of these people were diagnosed with a range of mental illnesses including depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, adjustment disorder and acute stress reaction, and there were also high levels of actual and threatened self-harm.”
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 00:48:13 +0000
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