The body of Hamed Shamshiripour, an Iranian national, was found in the forest near the Australian-run East Lorengau refugee transit centre. There are reports from Manus island that Shamshiripour had been missing since Saturday. Leaked psychological support files from within the Manus Island detention centre refer consistently to Shamshiripour’s “chaotic presentation” and report he was “agitated, aggressive, verbally abusive, pushing boundaries constantly, and has required police presence on numerous occasions”. Detention centre staff told Guardian Australia he was “a very sick man. Five refugees and asylum seekers have died on Manus Island under Australian government control since offshore processing was restarted in 2012.

Source: The Guardian August 07, 2017 06:45 UTC