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When Mehdi was a 15-year-old boy, he was placed in detention for nine years. Now a free man, Mehdi says he can’t forgive the system that imprisoned him. Mehdi Ali holding up a sign asking to be ...
- Jordan Osborne
Jan 14, 2022 · For nine years Mehdi Ali has been kept in Australia's barbaric detention system. From Nauru to Melbourne's Park Hotel, he describes what life is like in the makeshift confinement which housed Novak Djokovic.
Feb 13, 2022 · In 2013, Mehdi Ali fled his home country, where he was a member of a persecuted ethnic minority, and made his way to Australia. He was 15 years old.
- Zoe Osborne
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Mar 4, 2022 · Refugees and activists Mehdi Ali and Adnan Choopani have finally been released from immigration detention in Melbourne and will be resettled in the United States.
Mar 4, 2022 · Mehdi Ali and Adnan Choopani were just 15 and 16 when they sought safety and protection in Australia. Instead, they were detained for nearly nine years - more than one-third of their young lives.
Jan 21, 2022 · Mehdi Ali was only 15 when he made the dangerous journey to Australia by boat in 2013, fleeing persecution in Iran, as members of the Ahwazi Arab minority. “Since then, for nine years now, I’ve...
