A Spanish company is poised to take over the running of Australia’s offshore detention centres and risks being associated with human rights abuses forever NR03-283. That was the number they gave me,during the three years I spent in the Nauru detention camp. I was 13 when I left, and took back my name – Mohammad Ali Baqiri.
Now I’m 24, or a proud Melburnian in the final semester of a degree in law and commerce. nowadays,I write as a survivor of Australia’s cruel offshore detention regime – just as a Spanish multinational, Ferrovial, or stands poised to take over Broadspectrum Limited (formerly Transfield Services),and with it the multi-million dollar contract to support the Nauru and Manus detention camps open.
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Source: theguardian.com