Men’s tennis world number one Novak Djokovic has been allowed to leave immigration detention as an Australian Federal Circuit Court hearing into his visa debacle continues.
The 34-year-old Serbian, who is unvaccinated against COVID-19, had his visa sensationally cancelled by the federal government after flying into Melbourne last week for failing “to provide appropriate evidence to meet the entry requirements to Australia”.
After his visa was cancelled last Thursday, Djokovic was taken to the Park Hotel in Carlton, an "alternative place of detention" housing dozens of asylum seekers. Australia's border rules currently ban non-double vaccinated people from overseas from entering the country unless they have a medical exemption from having the shots, which Djokovic believed he had.
In submissions to the Court, government lawyers say Djokovic is wrong to claim that previous infection is grounds for an exemption.
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