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Tuesday February 23 at 6.00 pm Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St More information here Speakers: *Former teacher from RPC1 school on Nauru and Paul Dingle, principal from Glenroy Secondary College (who has spoken out against the planned removal of two of his students to Nauru) Come along to hear an eyewitness report from a teacher who worked with asylum seeker children at the Nauru detention centre school before it was closed. He risks 2 years gaol for breaking the Border…

Late last year Iranian asylum seeker Fazel Chegeni Nejad was found dead outside the perimeter fence of the Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre. Fazel—whose claim for refugee status had been accepted by Australian authorities—had been brutally tortured by the Iranian regime, and was terribly ill. So why did he spend his last 1,000 days in detention? Follow the story  and view the interactive map of Fazel’s Journey on the ABC’s Background Briefing