Egyptian refugee Sayed Abdellatif faces an indefinite immigration detention after the government won an appeal in the federal court, with Asio telling the court it held “classified information” it could not share with Abdellatif, but which demonstrated he held extremist views.
Abdellatif has been exiled from his homeland for more than two decades after being convicted in absentia in a discredited mass trial in Cairo in 1999 for offences he says he never committed. The evidence used against him was obtained under torture, and he says he has also been the victim of torture.
