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‘On my birthday I am reborn’: Refugee Farhad Bandesh released after seven years’ detention

Kurdish refugee Farhad Bandesh walked from a Broadmeadows detention centre into bright summer sunshine on Friday, holding his guitar case and shaking with emotion.

After seven and a half years in detention – on Manus Island, in Preston’s Mantra Hotel and finally Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) – Mr Bandesh became a free man on his 40th birthday.

  • Bianca Hall
  • The Sydney Morning Herald

“It’s something special and unique,” he told The Age, soon after his …

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