Responding to the judgement delivered in tennis star Novak Djokovic’s appeal against the Australian Government’s decision to cancel his visa, Amnesty International Australia refugee advisor Dr Graham Thom said: “Djokovic got a brief glimpse of what refugees have been experiencing for years because of the Australian Government’s shameful refugee policies. As Mehdi Ali, a 24-year-old refugee from Iran detained in the same Park Hotel, told Amnesty Australia, ‘the air inside my room is a jail, a misery that has …
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