'Torture and assaults': Migrants describe plight in immigration depots

Ill-treatment and inadequate medical care have led to hundreds of deaths in immigration detention centres with detainees living with the ever-present threat of punishment, Human Rights Watch said in a report today.

One migrant worker described officers torturing him, his brother and others for days after they tried to escape the Tawau depot - beating them using red bricks and batons and standing on their chests.

Two of the detainees eventually died...