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Darwin hotel refugees plea for community release as doctors lament ‘deteriorating health’ inside confinement
A refugee detained by the Australian Government is pleading for his and other refugee families to be temporarily released into the community after almost a year of confinement in a Darwin hotel room.
Key points:
- Refugees brought to Australia nearly a year ago for medical treatment are still detained in a Darwin hotel
- Other refugees brought to Australia for treatment have been temporarily released into the community
- The Australian Government says it will not comment on the cases of the 15 refugees in Darwin
Iranian man Reza Golmohammadian and his family arrived on Christmas Island as asylum seekers in 2013 and have been held in detention ever since.
His family is now among a group of five refugee families that are being indefinitely detained…
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