Rau wants compo for 'wrongful detention'

Cornelia Rau will seek compensation from the Australian Government for what she describes as her terrible and gruelling wrongful detention.

The German-born Australian resident said she had been treated poorly by police and immigration authorities during nearly a year in detention. She was not, and had never been, mentally ill.

"It has been too gruelling an experience. It has been terrible. I was put into prison because I didn't have my passport on me."