Tag: Refugees in Detention

Prime minister, as a refugee I have done everything Australia has asked. Nine years on, why am I still in detention? | Mehdi | The Guardian

Mehdi Ali from Iran who has been in detention in Australia for nine years

Morrison  the PM of “on the water matters” even denies what it is he said these days.

“I didn’t make the statement that every single person was who was in that place was not a refugee. I said that was, to my understanding, the case with some people who were there. There are a number of people who were at that facility who have not been found to be owed protection. … I’m aware of one particular individual who has been the comment of this focus of a lot of attention, who is on such a pathway, and I would be encouraging them to take up that permanent option that is available to them in the United States. We provided it, we secured it, we got it in place. And so if they wished they could go to the United States along that pathway. And that’s what we are encouraging them to do.”

This is Mehdi’s response:

Source: Prime minister, as a refugee I have done everything Australia has asked. Nine years on, why am I still in detention? | Mehdi | The Guardian