The Guardian | Ben Doherty: Nazanin Sahamizadeh says she wants to bring production to Australia to help world hear the voices of refugees A Tehran playwright wants to bring her production, Manus, to Australia to help the outside world hear the voices of refugees held on the remote island. Nazanin Sahamizadehs play follows the lives of seven Iranian ...

IRNA - Two Iranian nationals who were seriously beaten up by Papua New Guinea police and immigration officers on New Year's Eve were released from custody in Australian detention center on Manus Island. 'The men were released after 36 hours in the cells at the Lorengau Police Station on the island, where they said they did not receive food, water ...

IRNA Two Iranian nationals in Australian detention center on Manus Island were beaten by Papua New Guinea police and immigration officers on New Year's Eve. Australian media quoted the Federal Government as saying it is not yet clear what triggered the latest incident at the Manus Island detention centre following reports that the two refugees ...

An Iranian refugee held at an Australian-funded detention center in Papua New Guinea has won a political cartooning award for his work depicting life inside the camp. Ali, a 25-year-old whose pen name is Eaten Fish, has chronicled his three-year detention on Manus Island as he struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder ...

Amid an outpouring of grief at a mosque in the dusty southern suburbs of Tehran on Thursday, relatives of the dead Iranian asylum seeker Reza Barati added chilling detail to the moments when he was clubbed to death at the Manus Island detention centre. Speaking after a memorial service attended by as many as 1500, most of them his fellow Iranian Kurds,...

He went to Australia to seek refuge from his land of dreams, where he could have a life and study but instead he was held in captivity and killed, says cousin. The family of the Iranian asylum seeker killed during unrest in a Papua New Guinea detention centre have said they want answers from the Australian government on what happened to him in ...