Abdul Aziz Muhamat Wins 2019 Martin Ennals Award
- A Sudanese refugee activist Abdul Aziz Muhamat, who spent four years in this Australian detention centre, has been named the winner of the prestigious Martin Ennals award 2019.
- Abdul Aziz Muhamat, 26, has won the international human rights prize for exposing the very cruel asylum seeker policy of the Australian government.
- He was held at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea after fleeing violence in Darfur region of Sudan.
- He described the inhumane treatment of asylum seekers through WhatsApp messages to a journalist who told his story in a podcast.
- The Martin Ennals Award is a annual prize for human rights defenders often working under threat of imprisonment, torture, or worse.