Nauru Regional Processing Centre

Cartographic Name

Identifier

SITE-NRPC

Contained in place

Nauru

category

Detention Centre

temporalCoverage

2001-2008, 2012-2019, 2021-present

sourceOrganization

Department of Immigration and Border Protection

text

"We are writing in pain.
Our hearts are beating wildly,
we cannot keep silent.
Where is your kindness?
We are not helpless people …
Our wounds are grievous but we said:
truly this is an affliction
and we must bear it” (R. [Sri Lanka, detained Nauru 2 years])" Testimonial Poetry. Writing Through Fences. Our Beautiful Voices. Mark Time Books, 2014, p.6.

"3 September, 2015, Assault on a Minor, Critical: [REDACTED] THEN REPORTED THAT THE SECURITY GUARD GRABBED HIM AROUND THE THROAT AND HIT HIS HEAD AGAINST THE GROUND TWICE. [REDACTED] ALSO SAID THAT THE SECURITY GUARD THREW A CHAIR ON HIM AND SHOWED [REDACTED] A RED RAISED MARK ON HIS ARM. AT THIS STAGE, [REDACTED], [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] HAD JOINED THE CONVERSATION AND ALL CONFIRMED WHAT [REDACTED] HAD REPORTED. [REDACTED] ASKED [REDACTED] TO SHOW HER WHO THE SECURITY GUARD WAS. THE CHILDREN LEAD CW TO AREA 10 AND POINTED AT A MALE SECURITY GUARD, WHO WAS LATE IDENTIFIED BY CW [REDACTED] AS [REDACTED]." Incident Report. Detention Staff. The Nauru Files. The Guardian, 2015.

"The detention camp is a small jail and the island is a big jail. All of the island, same jail. I want to get freedom. —Monawir Al-Saber" Investigative Journalism. Gordon, Michael. “Six Days on Nauru.” Inside Story, 14 Aug. 2012, insidestory.org.au/six-days-on-nauru/. Edited extract from Freeing Ali: The Human Face of the Pacific Solution, University of New South Wales Press, 2005. n.p.

Source

"The Nauru Files." The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/nauru-files.
Mendez, Juan E. Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. United Nations General Assembly, 2013.
Australian Human Rights Commission. The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry Into Children In Immigration Detention. AHRC, 2014.
High Court of Australia. Plaintiff M68/2015 v. Minister For Immigration and Border Protection & Ors. 3 February 2016. https://www.hcourt.gov.au/cases-and-judgments/cases/decided/case-m682015.
Whitlock, Gillian. 2008. “Letters from Nauru.” Life Writing, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 203–17, doi:10.1080/14484520802393218.

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