Man inside WA immigration detention centre claims to be Indigenous

A man who is being held in a Western Australian immigration detention centre says he is an Indigenous Australian and has been mistaken for someone else.

A man held inside an immigration detention centre in Western Australia says he is an Indigenous Australian, not an asylum seeker.

The man, identified as Eddie David, says he was born in the Torres Strait.

The 39-year-old told the ABC he had been sent to Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre because his passport was allegedly fake.

"I'm not a refugee and I'm not an immigrant," Mr David told the ABC.

"I am Aboriginal, I am an Australian citizen, born and bred of this land.

"I shouldn't be in this detention centre. If it was a fraud, they should have put me in the cell, in the lock-up, in the jail, not a detention centre."

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