{"id":1424,"date":"2024-06-25T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2024-06-25T12:16:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T12:16:24","slug":"farhad-bandesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/farhad-bandesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Farhad Bandesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H-W0wcQbW18&amp;t=204s\">the Youtube video of a song \u2014 &#8216;Mey&#8217; \u2014 performed by Farhad Bandesh and Mostafa Azimitabar<\/a>,\u00a0 (Kurdish asylum seekers held in detention on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea), caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p>The following year, I managed to get in touch with Farhad who <a href=\"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/communion-10-Farhad-Bandesh.html\">shared a little of his experience of detention<\/a> on Manus Island.<\/p>\n<p>Both men have since been released into Australian society, but not without continuing issues, as a a couple of recent news articles demonstrate:<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"dcr-u0152o\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Australia\u2019s use of hotels as detention centres was unlawful, refugee\u2019s lawyer argues in appeal (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2024\/feb\/26\/australia-hotels-detention-centres-refugee-mostafa-moz-azimitabar-appeal\"><em>The Guardian<\/em>, 26th Feb 2024<\/a>)<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"dcr-u0152o\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">After a decade in detention I call Australia home. Labor\u2019s deportation bill is horrific (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/jun\/25\/after-a-decade-in-detention-i-call-australia-home-labors-deportation-bill-is-horrific\"><em>The Guardian<\/em>, 25th June 2024<\/a>)<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2017, the Youtube video of a song \u2014 &#8216;Mey&#8217; \u2014 performed by Farhad Bandesh and Mostafa Azimitabar,\u00a0 (Kurdish asylum seekers held in detention on Manus Island, Papua New &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[258,257,260,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azimitabr-mostafa-moz","category-bandesh-farhad","category-manus-island","category-refugees","entry entry-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}