RR Phantom
Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: OZschwitz: Go home, despicable community leaders tell Lebanese asylum seekers Sat Dec 28, 2013 7:14 pm | |
| Dozens of Lebanese asylum seekers detained on Nauru and Manus islands are being urged to return home voluntarily to avoid spending the ''best years of their life'' locked up in detention.
Lebanese community leader Jamal Rifi and Sheikh Malek Zeidan, the Australian representative of the Mufti of Lebanon, are travelling to Manus Island and then to Nauru to speak to the detainees and counsel them about their future.
It is unusual for Lebanese citizens to have arrived in Australia by boat seeking asylum and Dr Rifi told The Sun-Herald he was going to advise them not to ''waste their life'' in detention and to make the sensible decision to return home to their loved ones.
''For the first time, we have Lebanese nationals in detention who have been the victims of people smugglers who have duped them with false promises,'' said Dr Rifi, who is also on the Immigration Minister's Council on Asylum Seekers and Detention.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/go-home-community-leaders-tell-lebanese-asylum-seekers-20131228-300ox.html#ixzz2oonAQLAH |
|