Threatened with rape: Family of dead refugee lifts lid on WA detention centre

By Hannah Barry
Updated September 12 2018 - 10:56am, first published 10:52am
The Yongah Hills Immigration Detention Centre. Photo: Rebecca Le May
The Yongah Hills Immigration Detention Centre. Photo: Rebecca Le May

The family of an Iraqi national who killed himself while held in a WA detention centre say he was told he would be "raped if he didn't behave" and have indicated they intend to sue the Department of Immigration over his death.