A Sudanese asylum seeker has been forcibly removed from Melbourne immigration detention after a standoff between protesters and police in the early hours of Tuesday morning. After a standoff over several hours, officers removed Waleed and put him on a cargo plane. And he said that in the wake of Waleed’s removal from Melbourne, there would be widespread concern amongst other asylum seekers in Australia. Waleed arrived in Australia by boat seeking asylum. In the wake of the M68 case the government gave an undertaking to give 72 hours’ notice if any of those asylum seekers or refugees were going to be removed from Australia.

Source: The Guardian July 26, 2016 00:46 UTC