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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Eden Gillespie

More refugees released from detention in move ‘absolutely due’ to election

Hossein Latifi is seen through a window of Melbourne’s Park hotel in January 2022.
Hossein Latifi inside Melbourne’s Park hotel in January 2022. He was released on his 33rd birthday after nine years in detention. Photograph: Future Publishing/Getty Images

Iranian refugee Hossein Latifi has been released from Melbourne’s Park hotel, along with nine other people, after nine years in immigration detention.

Latifi was released on Friday – his 33rd birthday. It was the first time in almost a decade he had been able to celebrate outside the walls of a detention centre.

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