Rights Group: Asylum Seekers and Rod Mcguirk

rights group: The London-based human rights group found in an investigation that it appeared that no Nauruan had been held to account despite allegations of dozens of sexual assaults and physical attacks from 1,159 asylum seekers and refugees who live among 10,000 local residents on the tiny island, according to Toronto Star. According to confidential information provided to Amnesty International in September 2016, in the preceding two years there had not been a single prosecution involving refugees or asylum seekers as complainants in cases of assault, rape and theft, the report said. By Rod McGuirk The Associated Press Mon., Oct. 17, 2016 CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA—Authorities failed to adequately investigate complaints of violent crimes committed against asylum seekers held at Australia expense on the Pacific atoll nation of Nauru, Amnesty International said Monday. Australia Department of Immigration and Border Protection said the report repeated claims that had already been refuted. Australia attempts to deter asylum seekers from Africa, the Middle East and Asia from trying to reach Australian shores by boat from Indonesian ports by sending them to immigration camps at Nauru or Papua New Guinea. It said Amnesty International had failed to approach the Australian government to verify its allegations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.