Nauru - Pacific island refusing all foreign media visa requests

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the Pacific island of Nauru's decision to impose a media embargo amid growing controversy about alleged human rights abuses in the Australian government refugee detention centre on the island. Nauru's authorities must allow journalists to investigate the allegations. The island's authorities have not only turned a blind eye to allegations of rape and other abuses in the detention centre, which they host on behalf of the Australian government, but they have (...)

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