'Compliant, groggy state': In Nauru's ghost camps, refugees sleep away the pain

By Nicole Hasham
Updated August 22 2016 - 6:08am, first published 12:15am
Asylum seeker Mehran Jabar says everybody in Nauru detention has stress, depression and many 'use tablet for sleep'.
Asylum seeker Mehran Jabar says everybody in Nauru detention has stress, depression and many 'use tablet for sleep'.

When Asal Jabar is bored she yearns to play hide-and-seek. But in Nauru's refugee ghost camps, the young Iranian must creep around drowsy, medicated inhabitants who can reportedly sleep for more than 15 hours a day.

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