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More controversy with asylum seeker 'brain-dead'

Manus Island detention centre  AAP

Manus Island detention centre AAP

Australian media has refered to him as "Hamid Kehazaei". His family, however, says his name is "Hamid Khazayi"; An Iranian asylum seeker who suffered a heart attack after developing septicaemia from a cut to his foot sustained at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea. Almost simultaneously, confidential internal reports and the existence of a secret unit at the centre were exposed in the media. Refugee-advocacy groups says the developments continue to show the government has adopted the wrong policy on asylum seekers.


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By Peyman Jamali

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Australian media has refered to him as "Hamid Kehazaei". His family, however, says his name is "Hamid Khazayi"; An Iranian asylum seeker who suffered a heart attack after developing septicaemia from a cut to his foot sustained at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea. Almost simultaneously, confidential internal reports and the existence of a secret unit at the centre were exposed in the media. Refugee-advocacy groups says the developments continue to show the government has adopted the wrong policy on asylum seekers.



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