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<\/a>\u201cGuards hit us and kicked us\u201d, one of the teenagers told the Refugee Action Coalition.<\/p>\nOne woman who was pushed over in the fracas has suffered a heart attack and was taken to the IHMS clinic. Another woman who swallowed washing powder in the aftermath of the protest is also in the IHMS clinic.<\/p>\n
The guards eventually retreated from the compound.<\/p>\n
The protests continued late into the night, with cries of, \u201cWe are not animals,\u201d \u201cYou don\u2019t answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The head Wilson guard refused to respond to the complaints about the assaults and injuries inflicted on the asylum seekers. The guard told the protesters that the complaints about the assaults would be taken \u201cto the big boss tonight\u201d and there would be a response, today Thursday, 7 April.<\/p>\n
The escalation in the protests comes after 18 days of daily protests at the family compound. A sign of the deteriorating situation on Nauru was the graffiti, ABF=\u5350, which appeared a wall inside the family compound on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cUntil the government addresses the fundamental problem with Nauru, the protests will continue,\u201d said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition, \u201cThe asylum seekers were selectively discriminated against when they were sent there. Some have waited \u2018in hell\u2019 for three years without having a refugee determination.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Minister has boasted that getting children out of detention was always a goal of the Turnbull government, but that claim is at odds with the fact that children, women and men are being held on Nauru \u2013 and that the 267 who are presently in Australia are still being threatened to be returned to the prison island.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information contact Ian Rintoul 0417 275 713.<\/p>\n<\/a>Video clip available on request.<\/p>\n