23 Dec 2015

Behind the death that sparked the Christmas Island riot

From Checkpoint, 5:39 pm on 23 December 2015

It was the death that sparked the Christmas Island riot. Fazel Chegeni - a stateless, unschooled Kurd tortured in Iran, who became a boatperson and a refugee in Australia then a detainee locked in a system where everyone from guards to psychologists to friends knew he was suicidal - but could do nothing to halt the slide.