https://www.scmp.com/rss/323510/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Abbas Alaboudi has stopped painting as the pain of spending more than two years on Nauru has broken his spirit. He is one of the 755 refugees held indefinitely on the island that has become Australia’s offshore dumping ground in its deterrence of asylum seekers. “There’s no life or future here,” Alaboudi told This Week in Asia from his room outside the detention centre where 442 of his fellow refugees are housed. “We are merely breathing so we don’t die on the sea.” Amnesty claim refugees... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2040308/madness-eating-us-alive-inside-australias-asylum-camp-nauru?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2040308/madness-eating-us-alive-inside-australias-asylum-camp-nauru?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 Oct 2016 08:00:52 +0000