Serious incidents in Australian-run detention centres – including self-harm, assaults and infectious medical conditions – have risen sharply, with hundreds of injuries sustained by staff and asylum seekers reported to the federal workplace authority. Documents obtained by Guardian Australian under freedom of information laws reveal the number of dangerous incidents reported to Comcare jumped from 298 in 2012-13 to 449 in 2013-14. Most of these incidents – 83% – relate to injuries sustained by asylum seekers in immigration detention centres on the mainland and on Manus Island and Nauru. Read more: theguardian/australia-news/2015/jan/21/australian-run-asylum-detention-centres-see-sharp-rise-in-serious-incidents?CMP=soc_567
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:44:09 +0000
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