The Australian government knowingly relied on discredited evidence obtained under torture to keep a refugee in detention for a decade, despite being repeatedly told the detention was unjustified and the allegations untrue.
Sayed Abdellatif, falsely labelled a “convicted jihadist terrorist… held behind a pool fence” by then opposition leader Tony Abbott, has spent more than 10 years in immigration detention in Australia without ever being accused of or charged with a crime, because spy agency Asio had a “predetermined view” of him, called him a “liar”, and relied on evidence it knew to be discredited, a federal court judge has found.
