Saturday 21st February – 8.10pm (AEDT) on BBC World News

Australia's immigration policy will come under the worlds microscope this weekend as the BBC presents a special documentary program filmed at the Manus Island Detention Centre.

Australia has shut the door on asylum seekers arriving by boat, sending them to detention camps on remote Pacific islands. Even if their asylum applications are successful, they will never be allowed to live in Australia but will be resettled instead in Papua New Guinea. For this BBC Persian TV documentary reporter Fariba Sahraei travels to the region to investigate conditions inside Manus Island Detention Centre and to look at the human cost of Australia’s controversial re-settlement policy.

The documentary features eyewitness accounts from former Manus Island Detention Centre workers - Australians Nicole Judge and Martin Appleby - and insights from an Iranian journalist currently detained in the camp.  Manus Islanders also discuss the impact the centre is having on their local community.

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