Manus Island: The cell that Immigration did not want you to see

By Rory Callinan, Michael Gordon
Updated February 22 2014 - 1:13pm, first published 3:00am
Immigration Department official tries to block Fairfax photographing Lieutenant General Angus Campbell as he visits the squalid Manus Island Police station prison where six asylum seekers were locked up for 48 hours. Photo: Rory Callinan
Immigration Department official tries to block Fairfax photographing Lieutenant General Angus Campbell as he visits the squalid Manus Island Police station prison where six asylum seekers were locked up for 48 hours. Photo: Rory Callinan
General Campbell, left, and Manus Island Police Chief  Alex N'Drasah, right, with immigration officials as they walk through the area where asylum seekers have been housed with criminals on Manus Island. Photo: Rory Callinan
General Campbell, left, and Manus Island Police Chief Alex N'Drasah, right, with immigration officials as they walk through the area where asylum seekers have been housed with criminals on Manus Island. Photo: Rory Callinan

They are the squalid, inhumane jail conditions for asylum seekers that the Australian Immigration Department does not want anyone to see.

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