Despair Burgeons for Hazara Refugees Stranded in Indonesia for Years

At around 9:30 pm on July 30, Mohammad Yassin Nazari, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan who had been stranded in limbo in Indonesia for nearly a decade, attempted to take his life by cutting his wrist artery in a protest in front of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Jakarta.

When the bleeding would not stop, guards at the UN agency took a taxi to send him to the hospital, only for Yasin to return to protest minutes later. The next day, he was found dead at a train station by local police, who then shifted the body to the hospital.