‘Day by day I lose weight’: asylum seekers on Nauru get $115 a week, but a bag of grapes costs $20

Asylum seekers on Nauru have spoken out about their hunger and declining health. Photograph: Gallo Images/Getty Images

Asylum seekers sent to Nauru by Australia say they are going hungry on the island, prohibited from working to support themselves and given insufficient money to buy enough food.

Others say they fear the Nauru government will deport them to their home countries, from where they say they have fled persecution and violence.