{"id":10589,"date":"2021-01-20T02:17:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T02:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/20\/more-than-20-refugees-to-be-released-from-melbourne-hotel-detention-advocates-say"},"modified":"2021-01-20T02:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T02:17:03","slug":"more-than-20-refugees-to-be-released-from-melbourne-hotel-detention-advocates-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/more-than-20-refugees-to-be-released-from-melbourne-hotel-detention-advocates-say\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 20 refugees to be released from Melbourne hotel detention, advocates say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refugees set to be granted bridging visas more than a year after they were transferred to Australia under now-repealed medevac laws<\/p><p>Refugee advocates say more than 20 men who have been detained in Melbourne hotel rooms for over a year are set to be released.<\/p><p>One of the detainees being held at the Park Hotel in Carlton, Mostafa \u201cMoz\u201d Azimitabar, tweeted on Wednesday that 26 refugees being held in the hotel have been granted bridging visas.<\/p><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking : Twenty six refugees who were locked up in the Park prison have got their Bridging Visa right now. Congratulations!!!<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/dec\/24\/this-is-my-eighth-christmas-locked-up-in-immigration-detention-next-year-i-hope-to-celebrate-as-a-free-man\">This is my eighth Christmas locked up in immigration detention. Next year I hope to celebrate as a free man | Mardin Arvin<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/20\/more-than-20-refugees-to-be-released-from-melbourne-hotel-detention-advocates-say\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/20\/more-than-20-refugees-to-be-released-from-melbourne-hotel-detention-advocates-say\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refugees set to be granted bridging visas more than a year after they were transferred to Australia under now-repealed medevac lawsRefugee advocates say more than 20 men who have been detained in Melbourne hotel rooms for over a year are set to be rele&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1058,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1729,1730,1244,6,2843,2842,242,238,2841],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10686,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589\/revisions\/10686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}