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Farid Farid

Human rights warning over detention laws crack down

Detainees assessed by a state court to pose an unacceptable risk would be put back behind bars. (Margaret Scheikowski/AAP PHOTOS)

A tougher preventative detention regime aimed at jailing recently freed immigration detainees with serious offences has been slammed by experts as a dangerous potential breach of human rights.

Detainees assessed by a state court to pose an unacceptable risk would be put back behind bars, under laws passed late Wednesday night.

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