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Name
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Nauru Regional Processing Centre
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Type of carceral site
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Detention Centre
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Dates of use
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2001 – 2008
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2012 – 2019
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2021 – 2026
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Quote
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We are writing in pain.
Our hearts are beating wildly,
we cannot keep silent.
Where is your kindness?
We are not helpless people …
Our wounds are grievous but we said:
truly this is an affliction
and we must bear it
(R. [Sri Lanka, detained Nauru 2 years])
Testimony/Poetry.
R. "Can you do it?" Our Beautiful Voices, edited by Writing Through Fences, Mark Time Books, 2014, p. 6.
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3 September, 2015, Assault on a minor, Critical: [REDACTED] THEN REPORTED THAT THE SECURITY GUARD GRABBED HIM AROUND THE THROAT AND HIT HIS HEAD AGAINST THE GROUND TWICE. [REDACTED] ALSO SAID THAT THE SECURITY GUARD THREW A CHAIR ON HIM AND SHOWED [REDACTED] A RED RAISED MARK ON HIS ARM. AT THIS STAGE, [REDACTED], [REDACTED] AND [REDACTED] HAD JOINED THE CONVERSATION AND ALL CONFIRMED WHAT [REDACTED] HAD REPORTED. [REDACTED] ASKED [REDACTED] TO SHOW HER WHO THE SECURITY GUARD WAS. THE CHILDREN LEAD CW TO AREA 10 AND POINTED AT A MALE SECURITY GUARD, WHO WAS LATE IDENTIFIED BY CW [REDACTED] AS [REDACTED].
Investigative Journalism/Incident Report.
Detention Staff. The Nauru Files. The Guardian, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2016/aug/10/the-nauru-files-the-lives-of-asylum-seekers-in-detention-detailed-in-a-unique-database-interactive. Accessed 13 May 2026.
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The detention camp is a small jail and the island is a big jail. All of the island, same jail. I want to get freedom.
Investigative Journalism.
Monawir Al-Saber qtd. in Gordon, Michael. "Six Days on Nauru." Edited extract from Freeing Ali: The Human Face of the Pacific Solution, UNSW Press, 2005. Inside Story, 14 Aug. 2012, insidestory.org.au/six-days-on-nauru/. Accessed 20 May 2026.
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Authority
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Department of Immigration and Border Protection
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Archives and sources
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Australian Human Rights Commission. The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry Into Children In Immigration Detention. AHRC, 2014.
High Court of Australia. Plaintiff M68/2015 v. Minister For Immigration and Border Protection & Ors. 3 February 2016, https://www.hcourt.gov.au/cases-and-judgments/cases/decided/case-m682015. Accessed 17 June 2026.
Mendez, Juan E. Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. United Nations General Assembly, 2013.
"the Nauru files." The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/nauru-files. Accessed 17 June 2026.
Whitlock, Gillian. 2008. "Letters from Nauru." Life Writing, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 203–17, doi:10.1080/14484520802393218.
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Contact
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Kieren
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identifier
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SITE-NRPC