Dying refugee on Nauru brought to Australia after public outcry

The Australian government has brought a dying refugee from Nauru to Brisbane for palliative care, buckling in the face of growing outrage. The refugee, identified in media reports as a 63-year-old Hazara father named Ali, is believed to have only months or weeks to live as he fights aggressive lung cancer.

A 63-year-old Hazara father named Ali is assisted onto a plane. Source: Twitter/@lynnemurphy1

The case has prompted hundreds of doctors and thousands of Australians in separate petitions to call on Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to allow him to be brought onshore for palliative care.

The Supreme Islamic Shiite Council of Australia has urged the government not to treat the case as a political but humanitarian one.

The Council's Sheikh Kamal Mousselmani says Ali’s wishes to have a Shia burial should be respected.

This is an interview with Sheikh Mousselmani in Arabic for SBS Arabic24

 

Source: AAP - SBS