Decision to free Ned Kelly Emeralds brings number of people released after high court’s indefinite immigration detention ruling to 142
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The federal court has ordered the government to free Iranian asylum seeker Ned Kelly Emeralds, who spent a decade in immigration detention, the first release ordered since the new high court precedent on indefinite detention.
In what he had earlier called a “particularly disturbing case”, justice Geoffrey Kennett found Emeralds’ detention was unlawful because there was “no real prospect” of his deportation “becoming practicable in the reasonably foreseeable future”.
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