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Ali MC

Refugees freed on six-month Australian visas live ‘life in limbo’

Farhad Bandesh, an ethnic Kurd who fled Iran, was held on Manus Island for six years and then detained in a surburban hotel before he was given a temporary visa [Ali MC/Al Jazeera]

Melbourne, Australia – After years of being held captive – first on remote immigration detention centres on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and the Pacific island nation of Nauru, and then in suburban hotels in Melbourne – dozens of refugees who had tried to get to Australia by boat have finally been freed.

But while they have been free to move about the community since April, they are on borrowed time.

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