Australia to immediately begin releasing people held in indefinite immigration detention
Legal advocate for detainees says government could be liable for compensation if it fails to free people
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The Albanese government will immediately begin releasing people from indefinite detention after receiving a flurry of demands from long-term detainees to be set free due to Wednesday’s landmark high court ruling.
On Thursday the director of Human Rights for All, Alison Battisson, said the government was wrong to claim it needed to wait for the full reasons for the court’s decision, and could be liable to pay compensation for failing to immediately release people who it is not possible to deport.
Law (Australia) | The Guardian
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