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Kat Wong and Tess Ikonomou

Labor will fight detention challenge in High Court

Andrew Giles says people who do not co-operate with their removal should be forced from Australia. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

A push to overturn rules allowing asylum seekers to be deported or held indefinitely in immigration detention will be "vigorously" defended in court.

Labor is facing another High Court challenge as an Iranian citizen known as ASF17 makes a legal bid for freedom.

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