He expressed feeling as though he was treated like a dangerous criminal, despite having never broken the law. This experience, he described, was “very humiliating.”

“But once I arrived in Australia, I observed that dogs here receive more respect than humans… I wish I were a dog in Australia so I could at least be treated with dignity,” he remarked.

This week, a United Nations working group on arbitrary detention embarked on a 12-day mission to evaluate Australia’s detention practices. Their review includes examining prisons, police stations, and facilities for juveniles, migrants, and individuals with psychosocial disabilities.

“These decisions rest in the hands of government officials. One of the key issues highlighted in the submission is the need for a better, fairer, and more independent system. Such a system would increase our confidence that individuals are not being detained unlawfully,” she stated.

“In Australia, however, detention is automatically imposed on all unlawful non-citizens,” noted Gleeson.

“Yet in Australia, detention is automatic for all unlawful non-citizens,” Gleeson said.

Visit comes after High Court’s decision criticisms

“What occurs at the moment is that on a monthly basis, a case manager looks at a person’s file like a desktop review, doesn’t actually read any documents, and then determines with a very basic checklist whether a person’s detention is lawful or not.”