Exclusive: Non-citizens charged with breaching conditions to be let off after high court rules ankle bracelets and curfews as unconstitutional
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Up to 29 non-citizens released from immigration detention will have charges for allegedly breaching visa conditions dropped after the high court ruled ankle bracelets and curfews were unconstitutional.
As a result of the high court ruling that the regulations imposing the visa conditions amounted to punishment, all people charged with offences for breaching those conditions will be let off, including the plaintiff YBFZ who had six charges pending in the magistrates’ court of Victoria.
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