Australian immigration and asylum 'Every day I am crushed': the stateless man held without trial by Australia for eight years A UN body says Said Imasi should be released and compensated. But he still faces a potentially limitless detention The Christmas Island immigration detention centre, where stateless man Said Imasi is being held. Said Imasi has been held in immigration detention by Australia without allegation, charge or trial for almost eight years. “I had a normal life,” Imasi says of that brief period in his life. Australia must get better at dealing with cases of statelessness.”There are currently 37 stateless people in immigration detention in Australia.

Source: The Guardian January 14, 2018 16:52 UTC