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Judge’s order frees overstayer

By / 8 November 2007

According to the NZ Herald today:

An Iranian overstayer and convicted bigamist who has waged a 10-year battle to stay in New Zealand has been freed from prison after a judge ruled that continued detention breached his human rights.

The High Court judge ordered the release of Iranian asylum-seeker Amir Hoshang Mohebbi, who had been in jail almost four years under a law passed to keep him there.

Webcontent Image Jpg Amir1Mohebbi was released after an application for bail was heard in the High Court in August. The Government opposed the application.

  • Mohebbi was convicted of bigamy after he married New Zealand-resident Iranian Jaran Ahmadian in 1998 while still married to his first wife in Iran. His then wife fled to Australia and obtained a protection order against him.

  • His case sparked a rushed amendment to the Immigration Act in 2003 allowing continued detention of overstayers who could not be deported to their home country.

  • Last night Immigration Minister Clayton Cosgrove said Parliament would need to look at the case.

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