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Farid Farid

Migration laws crackdown blasted by experts, advocates

Farhad Bandesh fears being deported to a third world country under proposed law changes. (HANDOUT/WENDYHOUSE FILMS)

Australia's plan to pay countries to accept its deported non-citizens is amongst a raft of measures under scrutiny at a Senate inquiry that legal experts and advocates have panned as undermining the rule of law.

The bill was "horrifying", a Kurdish-Iranian musician who was detained in Papua New Guinea for several years before being released for medical evacuation in Australia five years ago told the parliamentary committee hearing.

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