'Extraction' at Port Hedland detention centre, May 2001

The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre recently leaked a training video by Australasian Correctional Management at the time of the Port Hedland detention centre riots of 2001. It shows instruction being given to staff on how to remove an asylum seeker from a detention centre.

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This is a slightly modified version of the video posted to YouTube by Crikey.com.au: some of the subtitles have been revised, and new ones added. Publication here is done with the approval of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, which passed the footage to Crikey.com.au.

The following account of the footage is taken from the ASRC blog:
http://www.asrc.org.au/humanrights/

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The ASRC has leaked to www.crikey.com.au video footage that has never been publicly shown before of a training video by ACM at the time of the Port Hedland detention centre riots of 2001. It’s a training video showing its staff how to remove an asylum seeker from a detention centre and can be viewed below. Its only a few minutes long and worth taking the time to look at.

The footage is shocking and appalling but it provides a much needed human face to what really happens in detention centres. It’s another proud example of the ASRC exposing human rights abuses and not being afraid to take a stand, just like when the ASRC exposed the new plans for Christmas Island Detention Centre and plans for a children’s compound and it was again the ASRC who brought the plight of Cornelia Rau to the media’s attention.
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The full story from Crikey.com.au can also be read on the ASRC blog site.