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Australia to close Manus Island asylum centre

Australia has agreed to close a controversial asylum seeker detention centre in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37104363
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Australia confirms Manus Island immigration detention centre will close

Immigration minister Peter Dutton offers no details on plans for the 854 detainees, but says none will be resettled in Australia

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Keep turn-backs and close the camps: leading human rights thinkers call for closure of Manus and Nauru

The release of the Nauru files—the 2,000 leaked incident reports, which include allegations of violence, sexual assault, self harm and degrading living conditions on Nauru—have focussed attention once again on Australia’s regime of offshore processing.

▻http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/keep-turn-backs-and-close-the-camps:-leading/7734324

Will Australia Really Close the Manus Island Detention Center?

Yesterday, the governments of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Australia announced the closure of the Manus Island detention center. After more than three years of keeping more than 800 asylum seeker and refugee men in limbo, have the governments caved to domestic and international pressure to close the camps?

▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/08/18/will-australia-really-close-manus-island-detention-center

Manus Island centre set to close – but where to for the detainees?

The Manus Island Regional Processing Centre – one of the two key sites of Australia’s offshore immigration detention regime – will close. A date is not set, nor any arrangement confirmed for resettling the 854 men still detained there.

▻https://theconversation.com/manus-island-centre-set-to-close-but-where-to-for-the-detainees-640

Asylum seekers: Turnbull government to hand cash bonuses of $20K for seekers to give up resettlement

AUSTRALIA will offer asylum seekers shipped to Papua New Guinea secret cash bonuses of over $20,000 to go home and give up hope of resettlement.

▻http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/asylum-seekers-turnbull-government-to-hand-cash-bonuses-of-20k-for-seekers-to-give-up-resettlement/news-story/d4ff63f11c376cbef629b003604a6da1

Australia confirms Manus Island immigration detention centre will close

Immigration minister Peter Dutton offers no details on plans for the 854 detainees, but says none will be resettled in Australia

▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/17/manus-island-detention-centre-to-close-australia-and-papua-new-guinea-a

The judge who unmade Manus Island on why offshore detention has no future

Papua New Guinea’s Justice #Terence_Higgins says Australia should have known the detention centre would not survive constitutional challenge

▻https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/24/the-judge-who-unmade-manus-island-on-why-offshore-detention-has-no-futu

Manus Island detention centre to close by year’s end, inquest told

Senior Australian government bureaucrat tells Hamid Kehazaei inquest Papua New Guinean government wants centre closed before 2018

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To Close Camps, Australia Must Not Send Asylum Seekers Back to Danger

Following reports of forced deportations from Manus Island, Jane McAdam, director of UNSW’s Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, explains why asylum seekers at the Australian-run offshore detention center have not had a fair chance of gaining refugee status.

▻https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/02/17/to-close-camps-australia-must-not-send-asylum-seekers-back-to-danger