It was the death that sparked the Christmas Island riot. Fazel Chegeni - a stateless, unschooled Kurd tortured in Iran, who became a boatperson and a refugee in Australia then a detainee locked in a system where everyone from guards to psychologists to friends knew he was suicidal - but could do nothing to halt the slide.
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