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Approximately 20 people held a vigil outside the Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney’s west on Saturday, one week after the death of one of its detainees.
Twenty-nine-year-old Muhammad (whose last name SBS News has withheld at his family’s request), from Malaysia, was found dead at the centre’s Mitchell housing unit last Saturday at 3:30pm.
Emma Comley, a human rights activist, organised the vigil along with fellow activists Ian Rintoul and Stephen Langford.
Human rights activist Emma Comley at the vigil.
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“Today we are here to pay our respects to Muhammed who was a young 29-year-old detainee who unfortunately died here a week ago today, she said.