Mexico: A lawsuit has been filed by a man from Australia against the Mexican immigration authorities. The reasons for filing the same was to detain him for unnecessary reasons, providing less explanation for detention and keeping him in bad conditions for a span of around one hundred and twenty days.

If reports are to be believed, this is the first lawsuit filed against the immigration authorities of Mexico by a migrant.

Stephen Compton, aged 47, the man in concern, argued that he suffered from various damages including economic and psychological tortures and faced detention for a time period of four months, without the immigration authorities giving any explanation for it.

Sin Fronteras (the migrant rights group) is collaborating with Compton in his lawsuit worth $168,000 against the National Immigration Institute. The group even stated that plenty of migrants face detention for longer duration in Mexico.

Compton is an artist and decorator from Dalby, Australia. He has been residing in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco but his visa expired in the year 2004. Since then, he has been staying in Mexico but he has confirmed that he found eligibility for a 2007 amnesty for over-stayers. He has confirmed that immigration officials picked him up from a hotel lobby in Acapulco last year in the month of November. He was asked to accompany him to their office premises, but rather was detained and succumbed to unwanted conditions like detachment from everyone. In addition to this, he was not granted any access to basic amenities like telephone or taking shower. The reason given behind this was that he was told he is a gay.

He was not given any information as to for how long he would face detention.