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A man released from immigration detention under a recent High Court ruling has been arrested and charged with indecent assault.
Aliyawa Yawari was initially staying in Thornlie, in Perth, after being freed from the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre in Western Australia about three weeks ago.
At the weekend the 65-year-old was arrested at a hotel in the Adelaide suburb of Pooraka, after a report a woman had been indecently assaulted by a guest.
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Yawari, who has a history of sexual offending, was charged with two counts of indecent assault and was refused police bail.
He appeared briefly before the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Monday, and was again refused bail.
The 65-year-old was one of about 140 people released from detention after the High Court ruled indefinite immigration detention is unlawful where there is no prospect of them being deported in the reasonably foreseeable future.
The federal government on Monday signed off on new migration law amendments.
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The new orders will only apply to non-citizens who have committed "serious, violent or sexual offences" punishable by more than seven years in jail.
"There are approximately 140 people that have been released because of the High Court decision," human rights lawyer Alison Battisson said.
"It would be my estimate that very, very few of them would even have an application made for them and even a smaller number would be found by a judge to need to be subjected to preventative detention.
"I think we're talking in single digits."
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, who has strongly criticised the release of the detainees, agreed it was unlikely these amendments would apply to many of those recently released.
"The sad reality of their inaction, of their inadequacies, of their hopelessness, is that some of these offenders are likely to reoffend," he said on Monday.
