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Labor condemned for ‘abhorrently cruel’ decision to put 100 people back in immigration detention
Group released around Christmas will be re-detained due to retrospective bill imposing a stricter interpretation of the character test
Human rights advocates and lawyers have blasted Labor for the “abhorrently cruel” decision to re-detain a group of 100 people released from immigration detention around Christmas.
- Paul Karp
- The Guardian
The group was released due to the full federal court ruling that aggregate sentences do not trigger automatic visa cancellation but are set to be taken back into detention due to a retrospective bill imposing a stricter interpretation of the character test.
An aggregate sentence refers to when a person is given one sentence for… had committed serious crimes including sexual offences.