An Iranian man has been taken to hospital after injuring himself at a Darwin immigration detention centre.
The asylum-seeker was taken to the Royal Darwin Hospital by ambulance late on Wednesday night, a spokeswoman for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) said.
“Royal Darwin Hospital reports the man’s condition is satisfactory,” the spokeswoman said.
Asylum-seeker advocate Ian Rintoul, from Refugee Action Coalition, said attempted suicides were a regular occurrence at the Darwin’s Northern Immigration Detention Centre.
He said last week a Kurdish man tried to take his own life at the centre.
The same man last year stitched his lips together in protest at his situation, Mr Rintoul said.
A DIAC spokeswoman later confirmed that a Kurdish man at the centre was taken to hospital on Tuesday last week with “health concerns”.
She refused to say whether the man had harmed himself.