Judge’s order frees overstayer
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.
Mohebbi 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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