Egyptian asylum seeker Sayed Abdellatif asks why he's still detained after High Court ruling. SBS News, AAP

Darryl Li, an anthropologist and legal scholar at the University of Chicago who has researched Arab foreign fighters and aid workers in Eastern Europe, said Abdellatif's case typified human rights breaches.

"We have seen over the past two decades how the transnational hunt for 'jihadists' has licensed all sorts of laws and policies that erode fundamental rights for all," he said.

Sayed Abdellatif : “I came when my youngest son was one-and-a-half years old and now he is thirteen-and-a-half years old. I wish I know the answer of why I am still inside.”

Egyptian asylum seeker Sayed Abdellatif asks why he's still detained after High Court ruling. SBS News, AAP