DOZENS of protesters have taken part in a ‘die-in’ outside Perth Magistrates Court to raise awareness about Aboriginal deaths in custody.

Protesters lay down on the Murray Street pavement on Friday afternoon, which marked the 25 years since the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Royal Commission.

International human rights organisation Amnesty International released a statement on Thursday claiming indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion had “glossed over the failures of successive governments to reduce indigenous deaths in custody and soaring indigenous incarceration rates”.

Amnesty International’s indigenous rights campaigner Julian Cleary said successive governments had “sat on their hands for an entire generation” while the problem escalated.