Al-Kateb

Al-Kateb v Godwin is a decision of the High Court of Australia, which ruled on 6 August 2004 that the indefinite detention of a stateless person was lawful, until it was overturned in 2023. The case concerned Ahmed Al-Kateb, a Palestinian man born in Kuwait, who moved to Australia in 2000 and applied for a temporary protection visa. The Commonwealth Minister for Immigration's decision to refuse the application was upheld by the Refugee Review Tribunal and the Federal Court. In 2002, Al-Kateb dec