A legal challenge into the imprisonment of asylum seekers in Bomana is imminent, according to Human Rights Watch Australian director Elaine Pearson.

Ms Pearson says

“These cruel conditions are in place to coerce men to agree to assisted voluntary return. And you know this fits a pattern that the Australian Government and PNG government have persisted with over the years, make the conditions on Manus Island so bad that people become so desperate that they want to return home."

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"We have real questions about whether that return truly is voluntary because of the conditions that they were subjected to in Bomana. And we know that people who have seen the men who've been released have described how their faces are just like bone, they've lost a lot of weight, and they seem physically and mentally damaged from their experience”

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