ASIO told to show why men were a danger
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Peter Gregory; 19/7/08
Years after they were held on Nauru, or forced to leave the country, two Iraqi refugees and an American peace activist are a step closer to learning why they were considered a danger to Australia. Scott Parkin, a US campaigner now working on climate change issues in his home country, has the highest profile of the three men trying to see the details of their adverse security assessments by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. But Iraqis Mohammed Yussef Sagar and Muhammad Faisal can probably claim to have suffered the most. According to a judgement delivered yesterday by a full bench of the Federal Court, the pair was held in detention at Nauru between 2002 and 2005 before the Immigration Department determined they were entitled to be recognised as refugees. Their visa applications were then refused after ASIO provided their assessments.
