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Soaliha Iqbal

A 41-Year-Old Aboriginal Man In WA Is The 80th Person To Die In Custody This Year

Content warning: This article discusses self-harm and suicide. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following story may contain images, voices, and video of people who have died.

Another heartbreaking death of an Indigenous person in prison has prompted anger and concern from Amnesty International Australia. The human rights organisation slammed the Australian government’s justice system as “fundamentally broken” and demanded it act on the recommendations of the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

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