{"id":459969,"date":"2022-01-07T00:31:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/everyone-asks-about-novak-but-mehdi-has-languished-for-nine-years-in-australian-immigration-detention"},"modified":"2022-01-07T00:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:31:51","slug":"everyone-asks-about-novak-but-mehdi-has-languished-for-nine-years-in-australian-immigration-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/07\/everyone-asks-about-novak-but-mehdi-has-languished-for-nine-years-in-australian-immigration-detention\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everyone asks about Novak\u2019 but Mehdi has languished for nine years in Australian immigration detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian was 15 when he arrived by boat in Australia seeking sanctuary. Despite formal recognition as a refugee he hasn\u2019t been free since \u2013 he turned 24 on Friday<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/jan\/07\/novak-djokovic-refugees-hope-tennis-stars-hotel-detention-will-cast-light-on-their-torture\">Refugees hope tennis star\u2019s detention will cast light on their \u2018torture\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Nine. Nine birthdays in detention. Mehdi reels them off : \u201cSixteen, 17, 18, 19 \u2026\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cI\u2019m 24 now,\u201d he says in resignation. \u201cI\u2019m still here.\u201d<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/everyone-asks-about-novak-but-mehdi-has-languished-for-nine-years-in-australian-immigration-detention\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/everyone-asks-about-novak-but-mehdi-has-languished-for-nine-years-in-australian-immigration-detention\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian was 15 when he arrived by boat in Australia seeking sanctuary. Despite formal recognition as a refugee he hasn\u2019t been free since \u2013 he turned 24 on FridayRefugees hope tennis star\u2019s detention will cast light on their \u2018torture\u2019Nine. Nine birthday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,1729,6,242,524,238,2841],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459969"}],"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=459969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463066,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459969\/revisions\/463066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}