Mood: sad
Topic: human rights
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 2:20 AM
Subject: Good news- but your help is still needed.
Despite hunger strike at Villawood entered its 4th week, we had some good news.
The ordeal of Aminovs family is nearly over. They were allowed to apply for family re-union without leaving the country. Thanks all for your support, your emails to the minister and for signing the petition.
There is another case we need your help here. A Palestinian asylum seeker arrived to Australia late 1996. His application was refused. But during this time he had very rough time. DIMA officials gave him very hard time. He collapsed several times and at some stage he was admitted to mental institution in Adelaide (Crammond clinic, Queen Elizabeth hospital).
Recently he married an Australian citizen (march 2007), and then applied for spouse visa. His wife is pregnant, and expecting the child soon. His wife had kidney problems soon after pregnancy. She was enforced to stop working. He is currently on Bridging Visa E, with no entitlements even to work. They are having very difficult time. He cannot leave the country ( not only because of his previous protection visa application, but because of his wife pregnancy and difficulties she is having).
Please write to the minister to allow Baseem Mohamed to stay beside his wife during this critical time. The minister needs to know that without work, Baseem and his wife are enforced to beg money from friends and charities and live under conditions near absolute poverty. He is very young man and easily can fill one of the positions that the government is going to China or Thailand to contract people to do.
Fo rmore info about the case, you can contact me on 0413 467 367
You can contact the minister on Kevin.Andrews.MP@aph.gov.au (please cc me any emails to the minister to keep the record)
Thanks again for the great work you are doing
Jamal Daoud
Posted by editor
at 10:48 AM NZT
Updated: Tuesday, 24 April 2007 11:15 AM NZT