A United Nations working group has called on the Australian government to immediately release and compensate a 35-year-old Tamil refugee with multiple disabilities who has been in detention for more than nine years.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention wrote a "scathing" report about the individual being held since 2010, which has been seen by SBS News and is yet to be publicly released.
The man, who SBS News has chosen not to name, is in Villawood Immigration Detention Centre in Sydney's west.
He is legally blind, has a number of mental health issues and an acquired brain injury which occurred in Sri Lanka.
