Justice Bernard Murphy dismisses Mostafa ‘Moz’ Azimitabar’s application but delivers scathing rebuke of hotel detention policy
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The Australian government’s detention of a refugee in Melbourne hotels for more than 14 months “lacked ordinary human decency” but did not breach federal laws, a court has found.
Mostafa “Moz” Azimitabar, who was detained for 15 months in two Melbourne hotels, sought damages from the federal government for what he believed was an unlawful detention that left him “dreaming of sunlight”.
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