Asylum seeker families in the RPC3 compound and refugees in the adjacent Anijue camp on Nauru began protesting on Palm Sunday. October 5 marked the 200th consecutive day.
Since the federal Labor government re-opened the concentration camp in 2012, along with another on Papua Guinea’s Manus Island, the asylum seekers sent here have been subject to violence, psychological torture, rape, intimidation and coercion.
They have courageously continued their protests despite ongoing harassment. Protest leaders have been imprisoned in the local jail on trumped up charges, and guards have tried to steal mobile photos to stop photos and videos of the protests being sent to the outside world. The governments of Australia and Nauru have made it virtually impossible for journalists to get to the island.
The Australian government refuses to allow them entry to Australia, even those that have been judged legally to be refugees.
Close the camps. Bring them here.
