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Immigration returns a Kurd to Baxter from
psychiatric hospital
22.12.2005
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Australia, 22
Dec., - The Immigration Department is under fire for
sending a man back to South Australia's Baxter
detention centre today.
The 45-year-old Turkish Kurd was being treated for
depression and post traumatic stress at Adelaide's
Glenside Psychiatric Hospital after spending two
years in the detention centre for over-staying his
visa.
His godmother Sister Pat, who preferred not to give
her last name, says he has already attempted suicide
twice.
"He jumped off the roof and broke his shoulder bone
and when he was in Glenside he took an overdose,"
she said.
South Australian Public Advocate Jonathon Harley has
criticised the Immigration Department for sending
the man back to the facility that caused his
problems.
"I just think that's a gross breach of the man's
human rights to try and remedy an illness and then
return the person to the original cause of it," he
said.
"It looks to me as if the minister wants to get
something off her desk before Christmas."
The Immigration Department says it only discharges
patients from Glenside on clinical advice.
www.abc.net.au
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