{"id":50239,"date":"2020-09-17T17:41:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T17:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=50239"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T11:28:10","slug":"refugee-detained-in-brisbane-for-seven-years-pleads-for-government-not-to-take-away-his-phone-by-peter-bugden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/refugee-detained-in-brisbane-for-seven-years-pleads-for-government-not-to-take-away-his-phone-by-peter-bugden\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugee detained in Brisbane for seven years pleads for government not to take away his phone &#8211; By Peter Bugden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">Refugee detained in Brisbane for seven years pleads for government not to take away his phone &#8211; By Peter Bugden<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50240 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/phone-call-migrants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Phone support: \u201cTheir mental health is so poor because they\u2019ve been locked up so long now and there\u2019s no hope of a resolution; they feel quite hopeless.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/catholicleader.com.au\/news\/refugee-detained-in-brisbane-for-seven-years-pleads-for-government-not-to-take-away-his-phone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CatholicLeader<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cPLEASE, we are human \u2026 So please, please, consider and treat us as human beings,\u201d is the plea of a Sri Lankan refugee languishing in detention in Brisbane on hearing the news that the Australian Government could take away his mobile phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Raj is a Tamil refugee, a businessman from Sri Lanka\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/catholicleader.com.au\/news\/sri-lankan-refugee-makes-desperate-plea-for-freedom-stuck-in-a-brisbane-hotel-room\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who Australia has held in immigration detention for seven years<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">As a political refugee he is afraid to give his full name, and he doesn\u2019t want his parents back home to know what he is going through.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">He is among more than 120 refugees detained at the Kangaroo Point Central Hotel, having been transferred from Papua New Guinea late last year for medical treatment under the now-repealed medevac legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Raj, speaking via mobile phone from detention, was upset about Federal Government moves to make way for the possible removal of mobile phones from refugees in detention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Proposed changes to the Migration Act would allow Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton and acting Immigration Minister Alan Tudge to declare certain items, including mobile phones and sim cards, prohibited and grant Australian Border Force officials additional powers to search detainees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cWe are not criminals; we are not terrorists \u2026,\u201d Raj said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cIf I just use my phone \u2026 I speak with my family and sometimes watch movies or something \u2026; so why do they want to take my phone from me?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cThe phone is much help being in detention because we speak with our families freely and sometimes we watch our religious things on the phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cIf we\u2019re not able to use our phones in detention then everyone will get more sick, mentally.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Raj said sometimes being able to speak with his family face-to-face on his mobile phone was more beneficial mentally than seeing a counsellor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cThe phone is useful for us because everyone misses their family,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cIf we can see our parents \u2013 or some people have a wife and children \u2013 that brings healing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cSometimes we feel like we are with them. Sometimes they\u2019re cooking something and they show us \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cSometimes our family has a problem and we can\u2019t speak in public (on a landline); we need privacy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Rebecca Lim, a Brisbane Catholic who is a refugee advocate, said mobile phones were a lifeline for the refugees in being able to access their lawyers and their families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cAnd, if Australia has nothing to be ashamed of in terms of the men exposing what\u2019s been happening to them in detention centres, then why are we so afraid of letting them keep their mobile phones,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cTo (the refugees) it\u2019s just another means of punishing them, to take away the last piece of dignity that they have \u2013 the freedom to call their families, their friends, engage with the outside world, social media, to tell them what\u2019s happening \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cAnd they\u2019re in lockdown; they\u2019ve had no visitors for the last five or six months, since March, since visits were banned to detention centres and apods (alternative places of detention \u2013 hotels).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cTheir mental health is so poor because they\u2019ve been locked up so long now and there\u2019s no hope of a resolution; they feel quite hopeless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cAnd, I think once you take away their mobile phones it would be just the last straw for many of them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The proposed legislation was being debated in Federal Parliament during the first week of S<\/span>eptember.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refugee detained in Brisbane for seven years pleads for government not to take away his phone &#8211; By Peter Bugden Phone support: \u201cTheir mental health is so poor because they\u2019ve been locked up so long now and there\u2019s no hope of a resolution; they feel quite hopeless.\u201d Source:CatholicLeader \u201cPLEASE, we are human \u2026 So please, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[4422,29519,29518],"class_list":{"0":"post-50239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-alan-tudge","9":"tag-brisbane-catholic","10":"tag-peter-bugden","11":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Refugee detained in Brisbane for seven years pleads for government not to take away his phone - By Peter Bugden<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cPLEASE, we are human \u2026 So please, please, consider and treat us as human beings,\u201d is the plea of a Sri Lankan refugee languishing in detention\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Refugee detained in Brisbane for seven years pleads for government not to take away his phone - By Peter Bugden\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cPLEASE, we are human \u2026 So please, please, consider and treat us as human beings,\u201d is the plea of a Sri Lankan refugee languishing in detention\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/refugee-detained-in-brisbane-for-seven-years-pleads-for-government-not-to-take-away-his-phone-by-peter-bugden\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"eLanka\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eLanka.com.au\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-17T17:41:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-12-24T11:28:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/phone-call-migrants.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"660\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"330\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"eLanka admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/refugee-detained-in-brisbane-for-seven-years-pleads-for-government-not-to-take-away-his-phone-by-peter-bugden\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/refugee-detained-in-brisbane-for-seven-years-pleads-for-government-not-to-take-away-his-phone-by-peter-bugden\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"eLanka admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/#\/schema\/person\/f6e635b74ab35ef88a68a9973cacc5bd\"},\"headline\":\"Refugee detained in Brisbane for seven years pleads for government not to take away his phone &#8211; 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