Australian government urged to ‘stop playing with people’s lives’ as people returned to detention

Dozens of people released from immigration detention due to federal court ruling now told they will be re-detained

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Lawyers have called on the Australian government to “stop playing with people’s lives” as it moves to re-detain dozens of people who were released from immigration detention over Christmas.

About 160 people had been released from detention due to a full federal court case ruling that aggregate sentences do not count for the purposes of the Migration Act’s automatic visa-cancellation provisions.

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