Papua New Guinea’s Police Storm Manus Island Refugee Camp<br />22, 2017<br />SYDNEY, Australia — The authorities in Papua New Guinea confronted asylum seekers on Thursday inside a controversial detention center on Manus Island, ordering hundreds of detainees to leave and destroying their belongings in an attempt to end a standoff at the camp<br />that has drawn international scrutiny to Australia’s offshore detention policy.<br />Jana Favero said that I find it very hard to believe anything<br />that the immigration minister is saying at this stage — that’s based on the fact that I was at the camp on Manus Island last week,<br />Boochani said that They said, ‘You must leave this prison camp.’<br />Just hours after Mr. Boochani said he feared arrest, asylum seekers on the island said he had been taken from the camp by the authorities.<br />Mr. Boochani said that At this moment that I’m talking with you, I’m in the toilet,<br />It comes three weeks after Australia officially closed the camp on Oct. 31, cutting off electricity, food<br />and water as hundreds of the detainees, all of whom are men, refused to leave.
