Farhad Bandesh to speak at Melbourne rally and also outside Mantra hotel, where more than 60 people remain in detention
A Kurdish refugee who was suddenly freed from immigration detention after seven-and-a-half years has said he feels “reborn again”, and thanked supporters and human rights activists.
Farhad Bandesh, an artist and musician who fled persecution in Iran, arrived in Australia in 2013 but was held on Manus Island for six years, and then in detention in Australia since July 2019.
