{"id":145682,"date":"2021-05-01T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/02\/the-refugees-torn-from-loved-ones-by-australias-cruel-family-separations"},"modified":"2021-05-01T20:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T20:00:12","slug":"the-refugees-torn-from-loved-ones-by-australias-cruel-family-separations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/01\/the-refugees-torn-from-loved-ones-by-australias-cruel-family-separations\/","title":{"rendered":"The refugees torn from loved ones by Australia\u2019s \u2018cruel\u2019 family separations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many lost years in detention; others have given up hope of ever holding their wife or children again. A new report argues Australia is engaging in a \u2018strategic, deliberate and coercive campaign\u2019 to separate refugee families<\/p>

Nayser Ahmed, his wife and two children, fled together.<\/p>

As members of the violently persecuted Rohingya ethnic minority, their homeland, Myanmar, would never be safe.<\/p>

Related: <\/span>'Somewhere to call home': helping stateless children realise their right to Australian citizenship<\/a> <\/p>

Related: <\/span>'Suffered more than many': how Canada and Europe are resettling Australia\u2019s refugees<\/a> <\/p>

I am here, my body is here, but my mind and heart are not here. They are always with my family<\/p>

Related: <\/span>\u2018I never felt alone\u2019: refugee Mostafa Azimitabar on justice, Jimmy Barnes and freedom after eight years<\/a> <\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many lost years in detention; others have given up hope of ever holding their wife or children again. A new report argues Australia is engaging in a \u2018strategic, deliberate and coercive campaign\u2019 to separate refugee familiesNayser Ahmed, his wife and tw…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1729,1730,6,13082,2843,242,1589,524,238,1305],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145683,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145682\/revisions\/145683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}