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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty

Manus Island and Nauru: previously unseen testimony and AI imagery reveal ‘unimaginable’ part of Australian history

An AI-generated image from EXHIBIT A-i, an exhibition based on  32 previously unseen witness statements from refugees detained by Australia on Manus Island and Nauru
An AI-generated image from EXHIBIT A-i, an exhibition based on 32 previously unseen witness statements from refugees detained by Australia on Manus Island and Nauru. Photograph: Maurice Blackburn

Thirty-two witness statements from refugees detained by Australia offshore on Nauru and Manus Island have been published as part of an exhibition chronicling, in graphic detail, conditions inside Australia’s offshore immigration processing centres.

The statements were collected during more than 300 hours of interviews with women and men detained offshore as part of a now discontinued pro bono class action that challenged the detention of a number of people forcibly held in immigration detention.

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