The Age/28.9.2024
Cruelty on top of everything else – Mark
The first person from Gaza to challenge his cancelled
Australian visa in court has been refused information on
why he was knocked back on security grounds, and is now stuck
in Cairo without rec0urse. Hosni Imad is one of a small
group of Palestinians to have their visas cancelled by ASIO after the Albanese government granted almost 3000 tourist
visas to help people with strong connections in Australia flee
the conflict in Gaza. The 45-year-old painter had
already fled to Cairo, and his wife and child had arrived in
Sydney two months earlier,when authorities told him in
early March that his visa was cancelled because of an adverse
security assessment, which found he was likely to promote
or facilitate political violence inAustralia.
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