Treatment of disabled Indigenous youth who was regularly kept in room for more than 20 hours a day may amount to torture, advocates say
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The treatment of a disabled Aboriginal teenager at Queensland’s Cleveland Youth Detention Centre – where he was likely locked in solitary confinement for more than 500 days – is “the most egregious” case on record in Australia, according to a longstanding Indigenous rights campaigner.
Guardian Australia reported on Monday that the teenager, Michael*, now 19, was regularly kept in his room for more than 20 hours during 744 days at Cleveland.
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