Detainee self harms at Darwin facility

The Immigration Department has confirmed a detainee harmed himself earlier on Saturday at the Northern Immigration Detention Facility in Darwin.
A spokesman for the Department of Immigration said the man was given immediate medical treatment and then transferred to Darwin hospital.
"Health services and mental health support are available to all people in immigration detention no matter where they are," he said.

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The spokesman said details of the detainee's self harm, the reasons or his nationality could not be disclosed.
He denied reports that detainees were engaged in a mass hunger strike or that five had sewn their lips together.
"Both of those claims are untrue," he said. "Nobody has sewn their lips together.
"There were two detainees at that centre who had missed meals by choice."
Source: The Age