Thursday, March 1, 2012

Fed: Deaths in detention over the past three years

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Fed: Deaths in detention over the past three years

SYDNEY, Jan 14 AAP - Deaths in Australian detention centres over the past three years:

* March, 1998: Immigration detainee from Villawood, NSW, dies in hospital.

* December, 2000: Tongan man Viliami Tanginoa dies after falling from a basketballpost he climbed to evade immigration officials at the Maribyrnong Detention Centre, Victoria.

* January, 2001: Immigration detainee dies in Port Phillip Prison, Victoria, with acoronial inquiry currently under way.

* June, 2001: A 38-year-old Palestinian man dies in a Perth hospital from cancer afterspending eight months in custody at Port …

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