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Closing PNG processing facilities welcome, but 225 people are still trapped offshore – it’s time to accept the New Zealand offer

Refugees are forbidden to talk to journalists on Nauru, so this individual had to be secretly interviewed in an abandoned phosphate mine. © Rémi Chauvin

Amnesty International Australia welcomes the Australian Government’s announcement of the closure of the offshore processing facilities in Papua New Guinea as a step in the right direction. However for the 125 men who remain in PNG, this is not a solution to the more than eight years that they have spent in limbo. Amnesty International …

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