Australian government urged to ‘stop playing with people’s lives’ as people returned to detention
by Ben Doherty, Daniel Hurst and Paul Karp from World news | The Guardian on (#690P2)
Dozens of people released from immigration detention due to federal court ruling now told they will be re-detained
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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