An undated handout image supplied by Amnesty International claiming to show the view of the living quarters for single women at the country's Australian-run detention centre on the Pacific island nation of Nauru. Amnesty International/Handout via REUTERS
SYDNEY (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.
About a dozen Bangladeshi and Nepalese asylum seekers on Manus Island told Reuters they are being repeatedly called to meet with Australian officials and pressured to take amounts of up to $25,000 (£20,042) to return to those countries, or face deportation.
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