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February 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Calling for change … Dr Michael Dudley.
THE chairman of Suicide Prevention Australia, Michael Dudley, has called for an inquest into yesterday’s death of an Iranian asylum seeker, held for 18 months at the Villawood detention centre, whom he had personally urged the government to release on medical grounds.
The man, 44, died in hospital of an apparent heart attack. Papers had been lodged with the Iranian embassy for his deportation after his asylum claim had been repeatedly rejected. He had been jailed previously by the Iranian regime and his brother executed.
Dr Dudley said the link between anxiety and heart disease was well known and he had written a psychiatric assessment of the man, arrested in Iran for joining freedom protests in 2009, that stated prolonged detention was worsening his depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
”He clearly had symptoms of panic, palpitations, sweating, neck and chest pain, and was unable to sleep because of his worries,” Dr Dudley said.
”Every night he had nightmares of what would happen to his family. He had flashbacks to events in Iran, triggered by events at Villawood including federal police and riot squad raids on rooms.
”His vulnerability was really compounded by his detention and the strong possibility of being deported to his death … and the suicide of other detainees at Villawood.”
He is the fifth Villawood detainee to die in 18 months. Last year, Dr Dudley was drafted by the federal government to advise it on how to prevent further suicides of asylum seekers.
The Edmund Rice Centre’s John Sweeney, who last saw the man on Thursday, said: ”It is distressing that the department has not adequately fulfilled its duty of care. Despite a number of reports that his mental health was adversely affected by detention, they continued to detain him.”
Mohammad Sadeghphour, a member of Australian Supporters of Democracy in Iran, said: ”The Iranian regime didn’t kill him, but unfortunately our government did.”
Mr Sadeghphour said when he first met the man, he counted himself lucky to have escaped Iran after being released on bail after democracy protests.
”When I saw him last week he was a different guy. He was so worried about his children and his wife. The Iranian community wrote letters to the minister and detention centre management.”
The man cannot be named because his wife and children remain in Iran.
An Immigration Department spokeswoman said the department expressed its sympathy to the man’s family and would co-operate with any investigation.
❏ An asylum seeker diagnosed with typhoid has been transferred from Christmas Island to the mainland for hospital treatment, while another asylum seeker with typhoid remains on the island.
The Immigration Department said the two cases were unrelated, as the asylum seekers had arrived on different boats.
There was minimal risk to the public because the detainees had contracted the disease before arriving at Christmas Island, a department spokeswoman said.
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