{"id":6933,"date":"2018-07-05T17:35:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T07:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/?p=6933"},"modified":"2018-07-05T17:37:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T07:37:03","slug":"heartless-border-force-denies-fariborzs-mothers-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/?p=6933","title":{"rendered":"Heartless Border Force denies Fariborz&#8217;s mother&#8217;s wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Border Force authorities on Nauru have rejected Fariborz mother\u2019s wishes that Fariborz\u2019s body be sent to Australia for burial.<\/p>\n<p>Fariborz\u2019s mother wrote a plea to Border Force on 27 June. More than 200 refugees also presented a petition to Border Force requesting that Fariborz body be sent to Australia and for help for his wife, mother and younger brother.<\/p>\n<p>Border Force officers insisted the only options were to send Fariborz\u2019s body to Iran or arrange the burial on Nauru.<\/p>\n<p>The family have rejected both options as it would mean permanent separation of the family from Fariborz\u2019s final resting place.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Border Force declaration this afternoon, Fariborz\u2019s distraught mother is staging a protest sit-in at the gates of RPC1, &#8216;so vehicles won&#8217;t disturb my son.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Fariborz&#8217;s body is being kept in a container in RPC 1; the detention administration compound  where the family has also been held since Fariborz\u2019s death on 15 June.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Women Supporting Women On Nauru\u2019 has begun a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/malcolm-turnbull-please-allow-fariborz-s-family-to-bring-his-body-to-australia\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">change.org petition<\/a> to call on the government to allow Fariborz\u2019s family to bring his body to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat possible reason could there be to deny the family\u2019s request?\u201d asked Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition.  &#8220;Australia is a lot closer than Iran, and there is family in Australia that can tend for Fariborz\u2019s body and give his family some peace of mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government\u2019s refusal is heartless beyond belief. We are urging the government to positively respond to Fariborz\u2019s family\u2019s request.  Fariborz and his family should never have been on Nauru. The least the government can do is to respect the wishes of his family and the community and bring his body to Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact Ian Rintoul 0417 285 713<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Border Force authorities on Nauru have rejected Fariborz mother\u2019s wishes that Fariborz\u2019s body be sent to Australia for burial. Fariborz\u2019s mother wrote a plea to Border Force on 27 June. More than 200 refugees also presented a petition to Border Force requesting that Fariborz body be sent to Australia and for help for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-press-releases"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/311091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}