‘Harrowing’ footage sparks calls for Queensland government to remove children from police watch houses

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Queensland’s most prominent victims’ rights groups says the state government must remove children from police watch houses, after the release of confronting footage showing the “brutal” treatment of children in the adult holding cells.

The videos, published after a year-long investigation by Guardian Australia and SBS’s The Feed, showed young people locked in “freezing” isolation cells, becoming panicked and struggling to breathe.

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