“I can only wonder at the lack of thought, indeed the lack of care and humanity in detaining a person with psychiatric and psychological problems in a hotel for 14 months,” said Federal Court Judge Bernard Michael Murphy.
Using hotels as makeshift detention centres for refugees and asylum seekers was lawful but failed the tests of basic humanity, a Federal Court judge has ruled in a landmark ruling on Thursday.
Azimitabar was supported in court by former Australian of the Year Grace Tame, Amnesty International campaigner Sally Rugg, his legal team and other friends, some of whom left the court in tears after the ruling. But instead of being taken to a medical facility for treatment, he was locked up with dozens of other men at the Mantra hotel in Preston, in Melbourne’s north, for 13 months before being taken to theHundreds of other refugees and asylum seekers were rushed to the mainland under the medevac policy, from offshore detention in PNG and Nauru, on the advice of doctors.
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