The hotel is being used as makeshift accommodation for refugees considered as minimal risk. 9News
A refugee detained in a Brisbane city hotel after being transferred from Manus Island says some fellow residents have been in the facility for more than a year.
The Kangaroo Point Central Hotel and Apartments, which offers hotel rooms for roughly $100 per night, is being used by Home Affairs as an Alternative Place of Detention for 80 refugees. APODs are used to accommodate refugees who are considered to present a minimal risk, including those requiring medical treatment.One 36-year-old man told 9News he has been at the facility for seven months after being transferred from Manus Island where he was detained after attempting to travel to Australia in 2013.
"We are here more than seven months, and 10 more people, or 15 people they are staying more than one year," the man, who did not wish to be identified, told 9News via mobile phone after communicating his phone number with hand signals from a window."If I do something wrong, okay, you just take me to jail, I didn't do anything, I didn't do anything.
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