An update on Abyan's case. The UN gets involved.

[Duchess]

The office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights has been in direct contact with Abyan on Nauru, and says she is physically and mentally unwell.

“Abyan is in a very fragile mental and physical condition and is deeply traumatised by her experiences since the day of the alleged rape,” Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UNHCHR said in Geneva overnight.

“She has refused to give information to the Nauru police about her attacker because she is understandably afraid of reprisals. She does not feel safe, given that her alleged attacker lives on Nauru, which is a very small island.”

Colville called on Australia and Nauru to “urgently provide a decent option for Abyan”.

Daniel Webb, from the Human Rights Law Centre, said Abyan should be brought to Australia.

The UN said it was concerned about a culture of impunity for crimes, particularly sexual assaults, committed against asylum seekers and refugees on the island.

“We are aware of a growing number of sexual assault and rape allegations since Australia restarted its policy of transferring asylum seekers to Nauru for processing in 2012,” it said.

Colville cited the case ofNajma, who was allegedly raped by two men in September. A Nauru police investigation concluded there was insufficient evidence to lay charges against anyone, but the UN said the distribution to media of the police report, which included the woman’s real name and other sensitive details, was “inappropriate”.

The UN spokesman also referred to the case of Nazanin, who was gang-raped on Nauru last May and who remains in Australia for treatment of the “mental and physical consequences of the ordeal”. She has been separated from her mother and brother, who remain on Nauru. Her mother has attempted suicide several times, and her brother, Omid, says both women are deeply distressed by the separation.

“My sister she just screams and cries on the phone. She cannot speak any more. She just screams and cries and my mother cannot help her,” Omid told Guardian Australia.

Colville said no one had been arrested in any of these cases.

“OHCHR is very disturbed by this trend, since impunity for such serious crimes increases the risk they will be repeated.

“It is a matter of particular concern that asylum-seeker and refugee women who have allegedly been raped or sexually assaulted are left in unsafe conditions, given their own vulnerable status and the close proximity of their attackers, and tend to be stigmatised by the population and by members of the Nauru police force. Women are also less likely to speak out if they fear reprisals and see little-to-no chance of justice being done.”

http://www.theguardian.com/australi...s-nauru-australia-resolve-abyan-case-urgently

 

[Game]

Whats Abyans Qabiil, MJ?

 

[Duchess]

Whats Abyans Qabiil, MJ?

I'm not sure. Why does it matter anyway?

 

[Gambit]

I hope she's granted asylum. Shit must have been tough

 

[Duchess]

UN pressure worked. Abyan will return to Australia.

http://m.smh.com.au/federal-politic...ical-advice-peter-dutton-20151028-gkkual.html

 

[menace]

I can't blame her for employing any means necessary strategy but I'm certain she wasn't raped ..knowing our people she used the gaal's one obsession ...feminism...when theses Western countries heard her story they were like "woman got raped omg where's our feminism "

 

[Duchess]

I can't blame her for employing any means necessary strategy but I'm certain she wasn't raped ..knowing our people she used the gaal's one obsession ...feminism...when theses Western countries heard her story they were like "woman got raped omg where's our feminism "

Menace, I thought we discussed this already? Just stop.

 

[waraabe]

is she going to get the abortion??

 

[menace]

Menace, I thought we discussed this already? Just stop.

Can a lol roosts hide his spots ...or a Somali maahmaah " soo bax ba la leeyahay bey sacabka leefeysaa"

 

[John Michael]

Good god I hope she gets the abortion.

Otherwise....