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A fourth asylum seeker has been arrested following a controversial High Court ruling, as Anthony Albanese faces a full-blown crisis over his handling of the issue.
The Sudanese-born man, 45, was arrested by Australian Federal Police officers at a Melbourne Hotel on Wednesday and charge with allegedly stealing luggage at Melbourne Airport from a traveller who was asleep and for failing to comply with a curfew.
He has been charged with one count of theft, an offence carrying a maximum imprisonment of ten years, and one count of failing to comply with a curfew condition, which carries a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment and a $93,900 fine.
The man was expected to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
A fourth asylum seeker has been arrested following a controversial High Court ruling, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (pictured) faces a full-blown crisis over his handling of the issue
The High Court’s ruling on November 8 found that indefinite detention was unlawful allowed 148 dangerous non-citizens to be released from detention (pictured: a released detainee last week)
He is the fourth asylum seeker to be charged with offences after the High Court’s ruling on November 8 found that indefinite detention was unlawful allowed 148 dangerous non-citizens to be released from detention.
Three other freed detainees – including a paedophile and a sex offender- have been arrested and charged in separate incidents.
Afghan refugee and convicted sex offender Aliyawar Yawari, 65, was charged with indecently assaulting a woman at a hotel in South Australia on Saturday.
He was branded a ‘danger to the Australian community’ by a judge after he attacked three women and kicked down the door of an ageing mother.
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Aliyawar Yawari, 65, is a convicted sex offender who was branded a ‘danger to the Australian community’ by a judge after he attacked three women and kicked in the door of one mother
Meanwhile, Mohammed Ali Nadari, 45, was arrested over drug charges in New South Wales and convicted paedophile Emran Dad, 33, was arrested in Dandenong, south-east of Melbourne, for allegedly making contact with minors on social media and breaching his reporting obligations.
He was also charged with trespassing after failing to leave a public arena in Dandenong on November 24.
Dad, who is from Afghanistan, was alleged to have run a prostitution ring that targeted underage girls in state care and was jailed for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in exchange for cigarettes.
The arrests mark a significant escalation in the crisis facing the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, who stands accused of failing a major leadership test over the issue.
Attorney General Mark Dreyfus lashed out at a Sky News reporter on Wednesday when asked if he would apologise to the Australian public for the debacle.
An irate Mr Dreyfus branded the question ‘absurd’ and hectored the journalist for attempting to interrupt him.
‘You are asking a Cabinet Minister of the Crown to apologise for upholding the law of Australia, for acting in accordance with the law of Australia, for following the instructions of the High Court of Australia,’ he said.
‘I will not be apologising for upholding the law.
Yesterday, Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil took steps to implement preventive detention legislation, typically applied to terrorists and spies, in order to lock up some of the detainees.
‘If it were up to me, all these people would never have been released from detention,’ she said.
