Reports from Christmas Island indicate that at least six people were taken by ambulance out of the detention centre following the bashing of peaceful protesters by the Federal Police riot squad.<\/p>\n
Asylum seekers who witnessed the baton-wielding, helmeted riot squad attacking the protesters said they saw people whose faces and shirts were covered in blood. They have told the Refugee Action Coalition that besides the six transported out of the detention centre, other injured asylum seekers are being treated at the detention centre\u2019s medical clinic.<\/p>\n
It is believed that there are many injured hands and arms from the baton attack.<\/p>\n
The asylum seekers have also reported that Serco and Immigration refused attempts by individual protesters to re-enter the compounds over the last few days.<\/p>\n
They were told, \u201cYou can come back in, when everyone comes back in,\u201d in an deliberate attempt to maximize the misery and to divide the protesters.<\/p>\n
Asylum seekers inside the compounds attempted to throw food, water and coverings to those protesting on the oval, enduring rain and cold.<\/p>\n
Some asylum seekers are quite traumatised by the attacks, saying it reminded them of the reports they have heard about what happened on Manus Island.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that the whole of the attack by the riot squad was filmed by the police themselves,\u201d said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition, \u201cThis is not like Manus Island where Scott Morrison can pretend he got bad advice. This violence against defenceless asylum seekers also happened inside the detention centre. He can release the video footage so the Australian public can see for themselves the brutality of the detention regime that he runs.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information contact Ian Rintoul mob 0417 275 713<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reports from Christmas Island indicate that at least six people were taken by ambulance out of the detention centre following the bashing of peaceful protesters by the Federal Police riot squad. Asylum seekers who witnessed the baton-wielding, helmeted riot squad attacking the protesters said they saw people whose faces and shirts were covered in blood. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-press-releases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t