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Nauru doctor wins global free speech award for speaking out on offshore immigration
Nick Martin’s medical attention and advocacy saw asylum seekers transferred to Australia for treatment, but ultimately cost him his job
- Ben Doherty
- The Guardian
A doctor on Nauru who blew the whistle on the deliberate medical neglect of refugees and asylum seekers on the island has been awarded a global award for free speech.
Dr Nick Martin, the former senior medical officer for International Health and Medical Services on Nauru, spoke out publicly against what he described as Australia’s “inflexible, unswerving, and shameless” offshore immigration regime, that…
In London on Wednesday night, he was awarded the 2019 Blueprint for Free Speech prize, an…