25 July 2021

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Iranian asylum seeker Reza Berati, who arrived at Manus Island in August 2013 as a 23-year-old, was murdered by two PNG detention centre security staff after protests by detainees erupted into a series of riots that left another detainee shot and 77 injured.

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His parents, Farideh Baralak and Torab Berati, are claiming the government’s negligence, and that of security company G4S Australia, are to blame for the murder.

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The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald revealed last year that G4S and the Australian government were facing a barrage of new legal claims brought by former guards suffering post-traumatic stress disorder. Maurice Blackburn, lawyers for Mr Berati’s parents, believe this is the first time civil proceedings have been brought in Australia by the family of someone who died in offshore detention.

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G4S and the Commonwealth Department of Home Affairs declined to comment.

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A police report from March 26, 2014 – about six weeks after the riots – said a “major obstacle” to the investigation was G4S and its employees’ refusal to co-operate with the PNG police investigators.