Sydney family of detained Palestinian woman plead with home affairs minister over visa cancellation | Sydney

After a pre -dawn raid, the family of a Palestinian grandmother, who was detained by immigration officials in Sydney, begged for answers to “real representation ile in order to secure visa cancellation and freedom with Interior Minister Tony Burke.

On Thursday morning, 61 -year -old Maha Almasri woke up by border force officers at his son’s home in West Sydney. He fled Gaza in February 2024 and soon entered Australia a visitor visa. After applying for a protection visa, a bridge visa was given in June 2024.

Almassri, after failing in a character test, said that the bridge visa was canceled on Thursday after the Villawood detention center.

According to the Migration Law, if a person is considered a direct or indirect risk for security by the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), the character test does not exceed the character test.

On Saturday, Maha’s cousin Mohammed Almasri told Guardian Australia why the family was detained by the government by the government and that no more information was given to the nature of the threat to national security.

Burke, the local member of Watson, where Almasri’s son lived, was directly begged for the freedom of Muhammad cousin.

“We need back to our aunt, we need his freedom. He left Gaza [because of] War and now you detained him – that’s not true, ”he said. Why failed in security check? Please answer our question, Tony Burke. “

He said he was disappointed by the local member of the family and Muslim community.

Uz When we won, we thought it would represent our community, ”Almsri said, his family’s cousin was worried about his physical and mental health while staying in Villawood.

“We all worry about him because he feels lonely, he feels, he doesn’t know what to do. The situation is terrible for him. He always cries. I am very sorry for him.”

In a statement published on Friday, Maha’s brother -in -law Soliman Almsri, led by the family, said that “Minister Tony Burke voted for Burke after the advice from the community elderly [was] The best candidate to represent our community in the current climate ”.

“We want to see the real representation of our family and an effective solution to this dilemma,” they said.

They said that Almassri was “confused about the oppression of dawn” and “they continue to relieve and assurance that a fair justice system is in a peaceful country.”

Some of the scope of the detainees of Maha said that the issue was called to be addressed to “in accordance with human rights”.

They said that two other Palestinians from Gaza were detained after the raids that were detained on Monday. Muhammad said none of them were about his family.

Burke’s office, the minister will not comment on the visa cancellation and the information provided by the family, “Intelligence and security agencies are not consistent with the information provided by the information,” he said.

On Friday, Shadow Interior Minister Andrew Hastie questioned the comprehensiveness of Safety Controls, which led to Almsri’s visitor visa.

“Tony Burke said that no country in the world will not send people back to Gaza right now. So what is the government’s plan? Australians deserve to know.”

The satisfaction of the Almasri family comes after a pro -Palestinian demonstration with approximately 150 supporters in Western Sydney in the afternoon.

The protest, which a participant said that approximately 50 police officers said that he had become police officers, took place outside the prostration in Belmore, the place of a friction who left the former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas in the hospital with a serious eye injury.