'Torture' used to dissuade asylum seekers, says former detention centre psychiatrist Dr Peter Young

By Lisa Cox
Updated August 5 2014 - 5:08pm, first published 5:06pm
Sri Lankan asylum seekers sent back by Australia queue to enter the magistrate's court in the southern port district of Galle, Sri Lanka, in July. Photo: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP
Sri Lankan asylum seekers sent back by Australia queue to enter the magistrate's court in the southern port district of Galle, Sri Lanka, in July. Photo: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP

A former chief psychiatrist to Australia's detention centres has described the government's treatment of asylum seekers as akin to torture.

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