SYDNEY—An Australian coroner found on July 30 that the death of an Iranian asylum seeker held on a remote Pacific island was preventable and called on the Australian government to put the health of detainees first.
Hamid Khazaei’s death from severe sepsis from a leg infection was the result of “compounding errors” in health care provided under Australia’s offshore immigration detention system, Queensland state coroner Terry Ryan said after an inquest into Khazaei’s death.
