This Iranian Refugee Wanted Nothing But Peace, Instead He Died Alone in Australia's Island Prison
Politics News Blog, Kodoom.com
Recently The Guardian shared the tragic story of Fazel Chegeni Nejad, a Faili Kurd, born in Ilam province in western Iran in 1981:
"[He] was already a vulnerable man when he arrived in Australia seeking the most basic of recognition as a human being. Stateless all his life, marginalised in every place he’d been... he sought asylum in Australia... The jungle north-east of Christmas Island’s immigration detention centre is dark and unforgiving. A person, seeking refuge or release, can disappear from sight in just a few steps... Over four years, on at least a dozen separate occasions, case managers, psychologists, detention centre operators and immigration department officials consistently warned that Chegeni’s mental health was being harmed by his ongoing detention, highlighting his history of ... trauma in Iran and his repeated suicide attempts, and arguing he should be released immediately... They suggest, request and finally plead for senior management to intervene in the case of a man clearly headed for catastrophe...His fate was entirely predictable to those who knew him and knew his history... Too late, a coronial inquest into Chegeni’s death uncovered a litany of failures in his protection in detention: people inside the Australian government who raised concerns about his care were sidelined, shut out or ignored; doctors’ orders were overridden by bureaucratic diktat; and ultimately, when Chegeni made his final, desperate escape over the fence from detention – on an island where there was nowhere to go – the untrained guards simply switched off the alarms and pretended it didn’t happen.
Fazel Chegeni was left to die."
You can read the full story HERE.
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