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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Christopher Knaus

Refugee incorrectly jailed for 58 days in ACT has no right to compensation, court rules

The ACT supreme court
The ACT supreme court has ruled against a South Sudanese refugee who was wrongly jailed. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

A South Sudanese refugee who was wrongly jailed due to a “failure of the system” has lost an attempt to sue the Canberra court responsible for the error.

The man, now in his 30s, had fled the war-torn nation of his birth before his brothers were made child soldiers. He lived in a Kenyan refugee camp for 10 years before coming to Australia in 2005, the ACT supreme court heard.

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