The containment on Nauru was a form of state violence but the daily hostility continues in Australia
“Welcome to my new cage”, 30 year-old Iranian refugee Niki* told me in our first meeting in Australia. In 2018, after being at the risk of sudden death on Nauru, she was abruptly transferred to Brisbane by a charter jet, at midnight. Following the result of the federal election, she attempted suicide in a psychiatric hospital.
To adapt to imprisonment, Niki was working and studying. However, something affected her life dramatically. On Nauru, she was stopped by a group of local men, when she was travelling on her motorbike from work. She was sexually assaulted. “The perpetrators threatened her if she told her brother or went to the police, they would kill her and her brother”, IHMS psychiatrist reported.
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