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Nettle visits detainees in mental health facility
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03/08/2006 17:15
Greens Senator Kerry Nettle has visited the Glenside Psychiatric Hospital in Adelaide to check up on the mental health of immigration detainees at the facility.
She says in one case, a 34-year-old man from Bangladesh now suffers from a mental illness and diabetes as a result of being in detention.
Ms Nettle says the man is pinning his hopes on the Ombudsman, who is looking into Australia's immigration policies, to recommend his release.
"I found a man who's very disillusioned by Australia," she said.
"He arrived here in 1999 expecting, given Australia's democracy and human rights record, he may be welcomed as a refugee and six years and seven months later he's still locked up in detention."
Source: ABC News Online
Date: 15/03/06
