There are reports Hamid Kehazaei, a 24-year-old Iranian asylum seeker who had been detained on Manus Island, has been declared ‘brain dead’ after suffering a heart attack.

According to the Refugee Action Coalition, Hamid Kehazaei was transferred to the mainland on August 27 to receive urgent medical treatment in a Brisbane hospital.

Read more: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/09/03/asylum-seeker-brain-dead-after-cut-turned-septicaemia-shocking-detention