Two former detainees have been charged with fresh alleged crimes since High Court released them

Two men have been separately charged with indecent assault and drug possession since the High Court freed them from immigration detention. It comes as Labor moves to lock up serious offenders among the released cohort.

Labor ministers are under pressure to resign for “incompetence” after a former immigration detainee allegedly assaulted awoman within weeks of walking free into the community.

As the federal government scrambles to push a new preventative detention regime to lock up the most serious offenders amongthe cohort of 148 people released by the High Court, police in South Australia and NSW on Saturday arrested two of the formerdetainees in unrelated incidents.

Afghan refugee Aliyawar Yawari, 65, who was previously convicted for assaulting three elderly women between 2013 and 2014,on Monday fronted the Adelaide Magistrates Court charged with two counts of indecent assault.

Less than a month after he was released from the Yongah Hill detention facility in Western Australia and forced to wear anelectronic ankle monitor, SA police allege Yawari indecently assaulted a woman at an Adelaide motel where he was staying on Saturday night.

Also on Saturday, NSW Police charged another recently released detainee, 45-year-old Mohammed Ali Nadari, with drug possession after allegedly finding him with cannabis in Western Sydney.

Recently released detainee Aliyawar Yawari has been charged with two counts of indecent assault since his release from the Yongah Hill detention centre in Western Australia. Picture: Paul Garvey

The incidents prompted Opposition leader Peter Dutton to call for Immigration Minister Andrew Giles and Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil to be stood down.

“The reason these criminals are in the community is because of the ministers’ incompetence,” Mr Dutton said.

“Their decisions have resulted in further Australians being (allegedly) harmed.

“It’s a disgrace. No further excuses.”

The Australian Border Force and Australian Federal Police launched Operation Aegis to monitor the released detainees, andwere forced to launch a massive manhunt last week when one individual became “uncontactable” for three days.

In a statement quietly released on Sunday the ABF confirmed two of the released detainees had been charged with criminal offencessince the High Court set them free.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has called for Labor ministers to be sacked for “incompetence”. Picture: Richard Dobson

Yawari, who immigrated to Australia from Afghanistan in 2010, was previously sentenced to three years and 11 months in jailfor attacks on three women in rural South Australia between October 2013 and December 2014.

After serving his sentence he was transferred to immigration detention in Western Australia, where upon his release in November he told reporters he was “happy” to be free.

A court found previously he had punched one victim in the face, and hit a second in the neck with a walking stick after indecently assaulting her.

Judge Paul Cuthbertson, during sentencing in 2016, called Yawari a “danger to the Australian community” and an “ongoing risk to women”.

Following his arrest on Saturday Yawari did not apply for bail and was remanded in custody until next year.

Meanwhile in the Parramatta Local Court on Sunday, Ali Nadari was granted conditional bail to appear in court on Monday.

A range of serious offenders are among the 148 non-citizens released since November 8 when the High Court ruled a stateless Rohingya man, known only as NZYQ, convicted of child sex abuse could not be indefinitely detained.

Under Labor’s new bill, Immigration Minister Andrew Giles would have ability to ask for detainees to be locked up again by the courts. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil is due to introduce preventative detention measures later this week. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Eight days after the ruling, Labor rushed through emergency laws to mandate ankle monitoring bracelets and curfews for thereleased detainees, and plans to this week pass a bill that would put the most serious offenders back behind bars.

Under the proposed preventative detention regime the Immigration Minister will be able to apply for a court to order the imprisonmentof a detainee previously convicted for a crime that carries a sentence of at least seven years in Australia who is still deemedat risk of reoffending.

The detention orders would last for three years, reviewed by the court annually, and a government would be able to reapplyfor a new order as the previous one expired.

A federal government spokeswoman said Mr Dutton had a chance to “prove” their consistent comments backing a preventative detention model based on the existing regime used for terror offenders.

“They only have one chance to back up their talk by working constructively with the government to pass this legislation this week,” she said.