Four men have been charged over an alleged kidnapping and serious assault inside Sydney’s Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, with the victim hospitalised with multiple injuries.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) allege the men, aged 28, 30, 33 and 40, detained a 33-year-old man in a bedroom and assaulted him on 9 November 2026.

The victim was taken to Liverpool Hospital, where he received treatment for facial fractures, a broken collarbone and multiple abrasions and bruises.

AFP investigators, assisted by NSW Police officers, attended the detention centre that afternoon and seized several items for forensic examination.

The four detainees were subsequently arrested and each charged with taking or detaining a person in company with intent to commit a serious indictable offence involving actual bodily harm, contrary to section 86(3) of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW).

The offence carries a maximum penalty of 25 years’ imprisonment.

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