Refugee Update: Hamid Kehazaei

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An inquest into the death-by-bureaucracy of 24-year-old Iranian refugee Hamid Kehazaei is currently hearing evidence. As the Doctors for Refugees representative at the inquest notes: "... unlike other refugees who have died in Australian offshore detention centres while seeking protection, Hamid died in Australia, so the wheels of Australian justice are forced to turn."

Hamid Kehazaei's last days – a timeline (GA, 10 December 2016)

Hamid Kehazaei inquest told 'life-threatening' infection warning didn't seem urgent (GA, 7 December 2016)

Hamid Kehazaei inquest hears immigration bureaucracy left asylum seeker stranded extra day (GA, 6 December 2016) "Coroner heard urgent medical transfers to move seriously ill asylum seekers needed to be ‘escalated’ through five immigration department bureaucrats."

Immigration officials routinely ignore medical advice on detainees, inquest told (GA, 2 December 2016)

Hamid Kehazaei inquest: faulty machine ruled out use of vital drug (GA, 2 December 2016)

Hamid Kehazaei left critically ill on Manus because Australia delayed transfer, inquest told (GA, 30 November 2016)

Hamid Kehazaei inquest: doctors faced 'political pressure' over patient transfers (GA, 29 November 2016)

Hamid Kehazaei inquest: asylum seeker needed urgent transfer, medical staff agreed (GA, 28 November 2016)

Delay to treatment of Hamid Kehazaei before he died revealed in leaked files (GA, 28 November 2016)

The day my friend Hamid Kehazaei died (Behrouz Boochani writes in the GA, 28 November 2016) "Hamid's death was totally different from any other death. It was beyond human nature. It could have been easily prevented and was the result of incalculable cruelty, and so our emotions were beyond those a person usually experiences as the result of losing a friend."

As far as I can find, nothing has been written in Wikipedia about Hamid Kehazaei. I'm going to try to rectify that. ETA: for a start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manus_Regional_Processing_Centre#Death_of_Hamid_Kehazaei (For the record, I'm putting the text I added a comment here.)

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===Death of Hamid Kehazaei===
On 24 August 2014, 24 year old Iranian asylum seeker Hamid Kehazaei sought medical treatment at the detention centre's clinic for an infected wound. Kehazaei's condition worsened and he could not be treated on the island. Medical staff sought his immediate evacuation, but permission was not granted until 26 August. Kehazaei was declared brain dead in a Brisbane hospital on 2 September 2016. With his family's permission, his life-support was switched off on 5 September 2016.{{cite news|last=Doherty|first=Ben|title=Hamid Kehazaei's last days – a timeline|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/10/hamid-kehazaeis-last-days-a-timeline|accessdate=11 Dec 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|date=10 December 2016}} An inquest into Kehazaei's death in the Coroner's Court in Brisbane on 28 November 2016. {{cite news|last=Doherty|first=Ben|title=Hamid Kehazaei inquest: asylum seeker needed urgent transfer, medical staff agreed|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/28/hamid-kehazaei-inquest-manus-island-asylum-seeker-death|accessdate=11 Dec 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|date=28 November 2016}}

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And, since I was there, I added this update:

Two detention centre workers, Joshua Kaluvia and Louie Efi, were sentenced for Berati's murder in April 2016. {{cite news|title=Two men jailed for murdering asylum seeker Reza Barati in Manus Island|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-19/two-men-jailed-for-murdering-asylum-seeker-reza/7339362|accessdate=11 Dec 2016|newspaper=ABC|date=19 April 2016}}