Amnesty International has called for a unit in a Western Australia youth detention centre to close, after it was found two teenagers have been held in isolated cells for over 250 days.
Amnesty has warned the treatment of the detainees at the centre could be a breach of international law, and has been detrimental to the mental health of the teenagers.
Amnesty International’s Indigenous rights manager, Tammy Solonec, said these findings “could amount to torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.”