CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian government will pay an Iraqi asylum seeker AU$350,000 ($271,724) in compensation for illegal detention after the federal government conceded it sat on its hands for two years. Justice Geoffrey Flick on June 7 found the man’s detention had become unlawful shortly after he withdrew a request to be deported to Iraq in March 2019. The […]
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