Bakhtiari boys seek return to Australia
19 years, 5 months ago

Bakhtiari boys seek return to Australia

ABC  

The two teenage sons from the Bakhtiari family have made an appeal to the Australian Government to allow them return to Australia to complete their education. Alamdar, 16, and Montazar, 14, have apologised to the Australian Government and blamed their deportation to Pakistan on the lawyers who acted for them and the activists who supported their cause. "First of all I would like to say sorry to the Government," Alamdar said. "I would like to apologise to the Australian Government," Montazar said.

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Government 'backed into a corner' over asylum seekers, says former Bakhtiari guardian
3 years, 9 months ago

Government 'backed into a corner' over asylum seekers, says former Bakhtiari guardian

ABC  

The government's decision to allow a family of asylum seekers to temporarily live in Perth was less about "compassion" and more about being "backed into a corner", says a former guardian of another high profile asylum-seeker family deported nearly two decades ago. Key points: The guardian to asylum seekers deported to Pakistan in 2004 said the publicity in that case …

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