📰 Germany launches restricted payment cards for asylum-seekers
Access to communication tools is limited, with men only given access to basic phones that don’t allow for messaging apps or video calls. Men have reported smartphones were taken off them when they arrived on Nauru and some have been refused requests to speak or video call with sick relatives. (!!!)
After almost a decade in immigration detention Mohamed Coker was told he would be put on a plane to Sierra Leone within hours
“…the evidence used against Mr Abdellatif in the Egyptian trial was obtained under torture.”
Mortimer criticised some of ASIO’s interrogation techniques as “unreasonable and unrealistic”, including conducting an eight-hour, 700-question interview during Ramadan when Abdellatif could not eat or drink in daylight hours.