Exclusive: The government has reached a confidential settlement with Barati’s family, who say they ‘fought for justice for Reza’

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    1 year ago

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    Barati was 23 when he was beaten to death by guards and other contractors during a violent rampage inside the Australian-run offshore detention centre in February 2014.

    His assailants attacked him with a length of timber spiked with nails, repeatedly kicked and punched him once he had fallen and dropped a large rock on his head.

    The pair consistently maintained others – including expatriate staff working in the detention centre – were also responsible for attacking and killing Barati.

    Eyewitnesses gave statements to police and to court that up to 15 guards – from Australia and Papua New Guinea – were involved in attacking Barati, including kicking him as he lay on the ground.

    Freya Dinshaw, acting legal director at the Human Rights Law Centre, said Barati’s murder had become “a symbol of both the brutality and impunity of the offshore detention system”.

    “Offshore processing has inflicted untold suffering upon people merely asking for safety while private security operators made multimillion dollar profits.


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