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The Greens MP Sue Higginson said in a statement she was “astounded at the lengths the state has gone to keep such a troubled young Lebanese Australian man behind bars”. “Everyone from the NSW police, to the commissioner of corrective services, to the attorney general have circumvented the court process repeatedly to ensure someone with addiction, cognitive disability and ill mental health remains in custody,” she said. It did not consider Fagan’s findings or evidence that counter-terrorism police determined three weeks after Farhat was arrested that he was not ideologically motivated.
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