SA: Court prevents teenage asylum seeker going back to detention

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SA: Court prevents teenage asylum seeker going back to detention

The South Australian Supreme Court has blocked moves by the Immigration Departmentto return a mentally disturbed asylum seeker to detention.

The order, which applies until April 16, effectively allows 18-year-old QADER FEDAYEEto remain at Adelaide's Glenside Psychiatric Hospital, where he's been for the past month,instead of being returned to detention.

Mr FEDAYEE, who fled from Afghanistan after his parents were murdered by the Taliban,has severe post-traumatic stress.

The court's heard that returning Mr FEDAYEE to detention would seriously risk his healthand safety.

SA Public Advocate JOHN HARLEY says he's been extremely frustrated at having to takethe matter to court, but Mr FEDAYEE's condition is bad enough for the action to be taken.

Mr HARLEY says when the teenager found out he might have to return to Woomera, he enteredinto his dissociated state and was on the ground in a foetal position wailing.

AAP RTV la/ld/rp

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