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"Sydney, Australia – The United Nations has condemned Australia’s prolonged
immigration detention of an Ahwaz Iranian asylum seeker.
The UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
declared the man’s imprisonment to be “de facto”, “indefinite” and in breach of
international law.
The asylum seeker, who prefers to be known as Mr A for his family’s safety,
fled Iran in 2010 via Indonesia, arriving in Australia later that year by boat.
He was held in immigration detention for the next 18 months while his case was
assessed before being given a bridging visa.
He spent the following six years living as an asylum seeker in the Australian
community. But in 2017, he was detained again – and his bridging visa had
expired."
Via Susan ****
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