Coroner finds asylum seeker's death was 'preventable'

Refugee Action Collective protesters hold a vigil for deceased asylum seeker Hamid Khazaei outside Brisbane Magistrates Court

Refugee Action Collective protesters hold a vigil for deceased asylum seeker Hamid Khazaei outside Brisbane Magistrates Court Source: AAP

A coroner has delivered scathing findings into healthcare given to a Manus asylum seeker before he died, and recommended mandatory Australian inquests into all off-shore processing deaths in Nauru and Papua New Guinea.



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