After the recent Australian election, Behrouz Boochani, Kurdish-Iranian author of NO FRIEND BUT THE MOUNTAINS and a refugee imprisoned on Manus Island for the past six years, writes that he has never seen the prisoners so depressed.

In just the past few weeks, there have been at least 26 suicide attempts or acts of self-harm. Read the full article from the 3 June 2019 edition of The Guardian here.

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