Ariak’s life in the Annexe: six months in solitary in immigration detention
Iranian asylum seeker’s plight highlights the overuse of ‘restrictive detention’ in Australia’s immigration centres
Ariak wanted to fly. Hallucinating and disorientated, he climbed on to the roof of #Villawood detention centre in #Sydney. But 24 hours later Ariak couldn’t even see the sky. Instead he spent the next six months of his life in one of Villawood’s isolation rooms; a place called the Annexe.
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#Australie #détention #détention_administrative #rétention #asile #réfugiés #migration #isolement