SYDNEY–About 20 asylum seekers left an abandoned Australian-run detention center in remote Papua New Guinea on Friday, Nov. 10, leaving hundreds threatened with forcible eviction within days amid an immigration standoff.
Nearly 600 men have barricaded themselves inside the Manus island center for more than 10 days, despite having no regular food or running water, defying attempts by Australia and Papua New Guinea to close the camp. The United Nations has described the situation as a “looming humanitarian crisis.”
