Iraqi man found dead in immigration detention in suspected suicide

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The Home Affairs Department has confirmed the death of a man at Villawood Detention Centre, with activists blaming the death on conditions at the facility.

An Iraqi detainee has been found hanged in Hume compound at Villawood Detention Centre on Sunday morning.An immigration detainee from Iraq has died in a suspected suicide at Villawood Detention Centre.

"The department and Australian Border Force express our condolences to the man's family and friends," a Home Affairs spokesperson said. "As this matter will be subject to ongoing investigation, it would not be appropriate to comment further."The Refugee Action Coalition were alerted to the death early on Sunday morning, with the Iraqi detainee in his 30s found dead in his cell.

 

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Replace the term 'activist' with advocate.

So the “conditions” aren’t killing anyone else?

“Conditions” is that an indoor football pitch in the photo?

That these dreadful places are still operating is an anachronism on our society.

Easily fixed. They are not refugees. They accept the offer of return, or they stay there and tough it out. Rintoul and co, should back immigration law, not subvert it.

Is that the aim of our detention centres?

We're those conditions better or worse than those he left in Iraq?

Which charge was he up against to be at Villawood anyway? Look forward to your FULL reporting

Vietnamese refugees from the 70s and 80s would describe the conditions at that facility as a five star luxury resort.

Not much is said about the male suicide rate in Australian society. No causes no prevention tools from sbs.

Another death caused by Australians and their ruthless government.

Pass me a lamington

That’s so evil

Why is Australia continuing to torture these ppl ClareONeilMP ? We must do better 😢

Please! Set them free! How awful for their families! How on earth a refugee run for their life from their homeland just to perish in the country that was supposed to give them refuge! 😡 I am ashamed of the way we treat them! 😔 SET THEM FREE !

Why does this never happen to Anglo or European or Caucasian men in detention on my land since 1788?

It's obviously covid.

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