Tuesday Afternoon: Camp and Asylum Seekers

tuesday afternoon: But the men who have stayed at the camp on Lombrun Navy Base fear for their safety in the alternative shelters available in the nearby town of Lorengau because of threats from locals, according to Toronto Star. The Sydney-based Refugee Action Coalition said the removal of electricity generators Wednesday morning left the camp without power, including toilets that operate on electrical pumps. The camp inside a Manus Island navy base was declared closed Tuesday afternoon based on the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court's ruling last year that Australia's policy of detaining asylum seekers there was illegal and unconstitutional. They still have tap water, though the coalition says it isn't drinkable. He cut his wrist and chest. As the asylum seekers faced a second nervous night at the now-unguarded facility amid ongoing fears of violence from locals, an Iranian man living there, Behrouz Boochani, tweeted A refugee has harmed himself with a razor. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.