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After spending eight years in detention, Kurdish refugee Farhad Bandesh was freed last Friday on his 39th birthday.
Clutching a guitar in his hand, he walked out of Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation and towards his Australian friends that had been waiting outside.
"My caseworker called me and said ‘you got your freedom’ and I said ‘wow, I cannot believe it. Are you kidding me?’,” Mr Bandesh told
The Feed.
“That day was something really special. It’s something I will always remember,” he added.
Five asylum seekers were released from detention last week and given temporary bridging visas, according to the Refugee Advocacy Network.