{"id":256980,"date":"2021-07-29T19:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jul\/30\/kurdish-refugee-sues-australian-government-for-alleged-unlawful-imprisonment-in-melbourne-hotels"},"modified":"2021-07-29T19:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T19:00:39","slug":"kurdish-refugee-sues-australian-government-for-alleged-unlawful-imprisonment-in-melbourne-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/29\/kurdish-refugee-sues-australian-government-for-alleged-unlawful-imprisonment-in-melbourne-hotels\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurdish refugee sues Australian government for alleged unlawful imprisonment in Melbourne hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mostafa \u2018Moz\u2019 Azimitabar seeks damages for detention over 14 months in case that could carry implications for hundreds of asylum seekers <\/p><p><\/p><p>A refugee detained for more than a year in two Melbourne hotels is suing the federal government for damages, arguing its use of hotels for immigration detention is illegal.<\/p><p>Mostafa \u201cMoz\u201d Azimitabar is suing the Australian government in the federal court for unlawful imprisonment. He is seeking damages for his detention over 14 months in Melbourne\u2019s Park and Mantra hotels.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2020\/may\/28\/the-iranian-refugee-writing-songs-of-love-from-his-luxury-torture-cell\">The Iranian refugee writing songs of love from his \u2018luxury torture cell\u2019<\/a> <\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jan\/25\/i-never-felt-alone-refugee-mostafa-azimitabar-on-justice-jimmy-barnes-and-freedom-after-eight-years\">\u2018I never felt alone\u2019: refugee Mostafa Azimitabar on justice, Jimmy Barnes and freedom after eight years<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jul\/30\/kurdish-refugee-sues-australian-government-for-alleged-unlawful-imprisonment-in-melbourne-hotels\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/jul\/30\/kurdish-refugee-sues-australian-government-for-alleged-unlawful-imprisonment-in-melbourne-hotels\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostafa \u2018Moz\u2019 Azimitabar seeks damages for detention over 14 months in case that could carry implications for hundreds of asylum seekers A refugee detained for more than a year in two Melbourne hotels is suing the federal government for damages, arguin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1729,1730,2883,6,13082,2842,242,238],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256980"}],"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\/1198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256981,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256980\/revisions\/256981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}