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Farhad Bandesh shocked to be a free man after eight years in refugee detention
After eight years in detention, Farhad Bandesh walked out of Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation carrying his guitar.
Key points:
- Farhad Bandesh spent his first day of freedom campaigning for other asylum seekers to be freed
- Mostafa Azimitabar is hopeful he too will one day be released from his Preston hotel room
- Lawyer Alison Battison said the release of the five detainees opens the gate to others
Three friends picked him up and took him straight to his impromptu 39th birthday party, complete with a cake and champagne.
“I was shocked and born again, that was my feeling,” he said.
“It was a good gift and something that’s in my mind forever, and not something I’ll ever forget,” he said.
The Kurdish asylum seeker fled Iran in 2013 but,…
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