The Nauru files: the lives of asylum seekers in detention detailed in a unique database – interactive

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Each of these squares is an incident report written by staff in Australia’s immigration detention centre on Nauru. The reports are categorised by severity, type and whether a child was involved. Click on a square to see expanded details. Warning: these files contain details that may distress some readers

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