Policeman Seen Roughing Up Man During Violent Nauru Protests

Refugees on Nauru alleged on August 9 that police hit a man for possessing a camera during protests near the Regional Processing Centre 1.In a series of videos posted to the Free the Children Nauru page, run by refugees at the Australian processing centre, a policeman is seen to apparently strike a man, as his fellow cops roughly take him toward a bus to jail.Women and children were pushed, and men were “bashed” during confrontations between police and protesters on the Pacific island, according to refugee witnesses.Australian journalist Nikala Sim wrote</a> that refugees had been protesting “to highlight a lack of resettlement certainty, and unsafety, on the small Pacific island.” According to Sim, five people were arrested and jailed for 14 days.On August 5, Storyful reported: “One refugee told Storyful their hopes for resettlement were dashed after the Washington Post leaked transcripts of a call between US Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The transcript signalled that the US-Australia refugee resettlement deal was non-binding and that the US would only be required to go through a process but weren’t obligated to accept any persons. Refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island, another Australian-run offshore detention centre, called the transcript proof that it was a ‘fake deal’ from the start.” Credit: Free the Children Nauru via Storyful