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Zoe Osborne

UN condemns arbitrary detention of Iranian refugee in Australia

Mr A has been held in Sydney's Villawood immigration detention centre since 2017 [File: Torsten Blackwood/AFP]

Sydney, Australia – The United Nations has condemned Australia’s prolonged immigration detention of an Ahwaz Iranian asylum seeker.

The UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared the man’s imprisonment to be “de facto”, “indefinite” and in breach of international law.

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