There is no such thing as no exceptions, that just means it didn’t happen to someone important enough.
Kind of dumb though to send him to the same place as exiled magicians why not just let him live as a normal human then?
Now we have another person angry because of the unbending rules, he’s probably gonna go off make contact with a brimhat and we’re going to have yet another arc about someone trying to do good being used by Brimhats.