Eaten Fish: Iranian asylum seeker and cartoonist ends Manus Island hunger strike
"The Iranian cartoonist known as Eaten Fish has broken a weeks-long hunger strike he held to protest against the handling of his claims of abuse while in immigration detention on Manus Island.
"Eaten Fish posted on Facebook on Saturday afternoon that he would end the protest, which was into its 19th day and left him “already 46 [kg] and close to [losing] my body parts”.
"The asylum seeker went on hunger strike after immigration authorities told him last month his complaints of sexual assault and abuse in detention were not substantiated and he would be returned to the main centre compound to live among the alleged perpetrators."
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"The Iranian, after four years on Manus Island, is also among 60 men issued with a forced deportation order after being denied refugee status before the centre’s slated closure.
"About half of 168 Manus detainees who have been denied refugee status are from Iran, a country that refuses to accept the forced return of its citizens."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/19/eaten-fish-iranian-asylum-seeker-and-cartoonist-ends-manus-island-hunger-strike
An offer from New Zealand to take 150 refugees from Manus has been rejected by Mr Trumble.
I feel so sad for what's happening to the refugees, and now we are seeing the same thing happening in the U.S. Whatever happened to compassion? It really makes one despair for the future - it seems to get uglier by the week, everywhere.