4 Sep 2018

Australian immigration detainees 'treated like dogs'

From Morning Report, 6:09 am on 4 September 2018

An Auckland-born man who's in an immigration detention in Western Australia says he tried to keep out of a dangerous riot that broke out overnight on Sunday. The unrest started after an Iraqi detainee at Yongah Hill camp tried to kill himself and was taken to hospital in a critical condition. Joe Benedito told RNZ reporter Anneke Smith what happened.

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