Australia + 3 more
Australia increases pressure, cash offers for PNG asylum seekers to return home
Asylum seekers on Manus Island pressured to take amounts of up to $25,000 to return to their countries, or face deportation
Failed asylum seekers offered up to $25k to voluntarily go home
About 860 men held on PNG's Manus Island under Australian policy
Australia says "substantial assistance" offered to non-refugees
Increased urgency comes amid doubts about US refugee swap plan
By Colin Packham and Aaron Bunch
SYDNEY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Officials at an Australian immigration centre in Papua New Guinea are increasing pressure on asylum seekers to return to their home countries voluntarily, including offering large sums of money, amid fears a deal for the United States to take refugees has fallen through.
Read more on Thomson Reuters Foundation
- Reuters - Thomson Reuters Foundation
- For more humanitarian news and analysis, please visit https://www.trust.org/alertnet