A young Brisbane asylum seeker, whose fight to remain in Australia made national news after she was detained by armed immigration officers and flown to Darwin, has finally secured permanent residency.

Mojgan Shamsalipoor sought asylum in Australia in 2012 after fleeing an arranged marriage to a 60-year-old man and several assaults in Iran.

But when she was three months away from graduating from Yeronga State High School, she was arrested and “ dragged on the ground ”.

She “accepted” her year 12 certificate behind the bars of Darwin’s Wickham Point immigration centre, after studying her classes while in detention , later returning to her old high school for an emotional graduation in front of her peers.

After two years in detention, Shamsalipoor was released on a temporary bridg

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