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30 November 08

Granting Dr Bernhard Moeller permanent visa: when will the Minister act to end Aminovs’ 11 years ordeal?
While the Social Justice Network (SJN) welcomes the Minister for Immigration’s exercise of his dicresionary power to grant Dr Moeller a permanent visa regardless of the cost of caring for his disabled child, it leaves the Network wondering why the Minister did not act in such an immediate way in other more urgent long-standing ordeals.

“It is very clear that the Minister is only interested in intervening in cases of a high-profile nature that fit within the mentality of the mainstream majority of White Australian voters. The Minister would act immediately just one day after the tribunal’s refusal of the case of a Christian European professional. But when it is a case of poor Muslim refugees, the Minister is refusing to act 11 years after the tribunal’s refusal” said Jamal Daoud, spokesperson of SJN. “The Department of Immigration is clearly still operating under the harsh racist guidelines of the Howard- Ruddock’s era”

“DIAC is still operating under the same Liberal’s culture of racism, deception and cover-up. DIAC told the family and me in several meetings last month while trying to convince the family to end their hunger strike, that the Minister is personally interested in ending their 11 year long ordeal. This week, Mr Hassan Sowiad from DIAC, called the son Marat and told him that the family has no case and if they would not appoint a migration agent to manage the case, the case would not have any chance of succeeding”

“The son Marat has since then been in shock. He then refused to talk to any of the department’s officals, and instead sent them the attached email. The whole family had been in shock since then”

“The SJN supports the family in their decision to resume their hunger strike and to travel to Canberra this coming Monday” added Mr Daoud. “The family will do all in its capacity to somehow meet either the Minister of this portfolio or his boss, the Prime Minister”

“The network is holding the Minister morally and legally responsibile for any fatal consequences of his department’s culture of deception and playing with people’s lives and mental status” said Mr Daoud.

The family and its supporters will travel this Monday, 1 December, to Canberra and will be outside protesting on full hunger strike from 10 am.

For more information you can contact Jamal Daoud on 0424 163 667

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