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Harry Sappington lives right behind the home where the fatal shooting took place.

The full bench of the Federal Court is set to hear Moz Azimitabar’s appeal against the 2023 Federal Court decision that Alternative Places of Detention (APODs) are lawful under the Migration Act 1958 (Cth). 

Kurdish refugee Mostafa Azimitabar brought a landmark legal challenge against the federal government over the use of hotels in Australia to detain refugees and asylum seekers. Here's the backstory to how the case began.

The Federal Court in Melbourne is set to hand down a verdict into whether Mostafa Azimitabar's hotel detention was illegal under the Migration Act.

In mid-2022, the Australian Human Rights Commission conducted inspections, interviews and consultations to monitor the human rights of people detained in hotel Alternative Places of Detention (APODs) in Melbourne and Brisbane. This report describes the living conditions within hotel APODs and provides an assessment of the human rights impacts.

At the time of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s inspections, the longest continuous detention in a hotel was 634 days

Legislation that would help evacuate refugees held offshore is urgently needed to erase the dark history of suffering and punishment by the Coalition Gove

Former detainee, Kurdish-Iranian refugee Mostafa ‘Moz’ Azimitabar, seeks compensation from the Federal Government for what he alleges was unlawful detention. By Maeve Elrington

Kurdish refugee Moz Azimitabar is taking the Commonwealth to court over his time in two Melbourne hotels, known as Alternative Places of Detention.

Melbourne, Australia - After years of being held captive - first on remote immigration detention centers on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and the Pa