الحكومة الاسترالية تعلق علة متقل كرم المصرى

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http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/s...006301,00.html

THE Immigration Department is to investigate the reported death of a Palestinian refugee previously denied a visa to stay in Australia.

But a department spokesman said today it could not be responsible for every deportee who had spent time in Australia.

Akram Al Masri was killed two days ago in the Gaza Strip, refugee advocates say.

The Federal Court in 2002 ordered Akram Al Masri be released from immigration detention, ruling the Federal Government did not have the right to detain him ahead of his deportation, despite his having been denied a temporary protection visa.

He left Australia a short time later.

At the time, Mr Al Masri said he feared for his life if forced to return to Israel. Even so, he said he would rather be returned home than go back to the detention centre.

"We are sad to hear of the apparent death of this gentleman, Mr Al Masri, and we extend our condolences to his family," the Immigration spokesman told AAP.

"I say that because we have not completely established the circumstances or the facts of what's happened here.

"The death of a father and husband is a tragedy for all those people who are left behind.

"However, we emphasise the fact that even if the person has spent some time in Australia, this does not mean that Australia is responsible for all events that may befall them in the future."

He said people could face generalised dangers, hardships and uncertainty to varying degrees in different countries.

"However, we are not going to discuss this in further detail until we have properly investigated all the facts, which we will conduct as soon as possible," the spokesman said.

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رد: كرم المصرى اسم نشر على اشهر جرائد العالم الادفيرتايزر

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/stor...44-950,00.html



THE Immigration Department is to investigate the reported death of a Palestinian refugee previously denied a visa to stay in Australia.

The Federal Court in 2002 ordered Akram Al Masri be released from immigration detention, ruling the Federal Government did not have the right to detain him ahead of his deportation, despite his having been denied a temporary protection visa.

He left Australia a short time later.

At the time, Mr Al Masri said he feared for his life if forced to return to Israel but said he'd rather be returned home than go back to the detention centre.

Sydney-based Social Justice Network spokesman Jamal Daoud said Mr Al Masri was shot dead in the Gaza Strip yesterday.

He said confirmation had come from Australian-based friends and family of the dead man.

A department spokesman said today it could not be responsible for every deportee who had spent time in Australia.

"We are sad to hear of the apparent death of this gentleman, Mr Al Masri, and we extend our condolences to his family," the Immigration spokesman told AAP.

"I say that because we have not completely established the circumstances or the facts of what's happened here.

"The death of a father and husband is a tragedy for all those people who are left behind.

"However, we emphasise the fact that even if the person has spent some time in Australia, this does not mean that Australia is responsible for all events that may befall them in the future."

He said people could face generalised dangers, hardships and uncertainty to varying degrees in different countries.

"However, we are not going to discuss this in further detail until we have properly investigated all the facts, which we will conduct as soon as possible," the spokesman said.

Government has 'blood on its hands'

Mr Al Masri's fight for asylum became a high profile showdown with former immigration minister Philip Ruddock after the Federal Court ordered his release from the detention.

Mr Dauod said the Howard government had blood on its hands.

"The previous Australian government is responsible for another terrible crime by forcing refugees to be sent back to Gaza when they knew the situation there," he said.

"This guy had problems with Israel and the Palestinian Authority. He claimed to have been tortured and the previous government knew all that and still forced him out.

"It is a tragedy because we have lost another young person who who could have been a good Australian citizen."

Jack Smith, of Project SafeCom, said Mr Al Masri had been shot in the head.

"It's a tragic story that could have been prevented if we would have been a bit more humane to asylum seekers who have a case," Mr Smith told ABC Radio.

"And if we wouldn't have sent him away he may well be alive and well amongst us at the moment."

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رد: كرم المصرى اسم نشر على اشهر جرائد العالم الادفيرتايزر

http://www.watoday.com.au/world/depo...0802-3oth.html

Deported refugee shot dead
Paul Bibby, Jason Koutsoukis in Gaza, Mark Metherell and Jordan Baker
August 2, 2008 - 8:45AM
A Palestinian refugee deported by the Howard government and denied sanctuary in Australia again this year has been shot dead in Gaza, leaving behind a wife and four children.

Akram al Masri, who was sent back to Gaza in September 2002 despite refuge advocates winning his release from Woomera detention centre, applied for a visitor's visa in February after the murder of his brother, fearing he and his family would be killed.

His plea was rejected.

Refugee advocates who supported Mr Masri said the killing, outside a courthouse near the Khan Yunis refugee camp, might have been carried out by the Palestinian political party Fatah, which wrongly believed he was an Israeli collaborator.

But sources in Gaza suggested the 31-year-old was killed to avenge his alleged involvement in the deaths of two members of a rival clan 18 months ago, part of a long feud.

A refugee advocate, Marilyn Shepherd, told the Herald last night she and Mr Masri's uncle, who lives in Adelaide, had submitted the application for a visitor's visa through the office of the Labor senator Linda Kirk in February, soon after the murder of Mr Masri's brother, "but the department put the red flag up on us".

"He said all along that his life was in danger but they never believed him - when the Masri name came up, the shutters at the department went down.

"He was gunned down in broad daylight in cold blood. His mother was killed before he claimed refugee status here, his brother was killed last year, and he was gunned down yesterday like a dog on the side of the road."

A spokesman for the Department of Immigration said last night the welfare of a person removed from Australia was the "responsibility of the country to which he has been removed. Anybody who has applied for protection from Australia is not removed if we believe that person will be persecuted."

Mr Masri first arrived in Australia in 2001, suffering a bullet wound to the leg, but was detained at the Woomera detention centre after his asylum claim was rejected.

In 2002 Mr Masri, then 25, was twice released from detention by order of the Federal Court. The court ordered his second release from custody after the government detained him again near Port Augusta because he did not have a visa.

The then immigration minister, Philip Ruddock, said that Mr Masri would be deported because he did not have a visa. Mr Ruddock could not be contacted for comment last night.

As a result of the Masri case, which was taken to the High Court, six immigration detainees were released. The court found the Government had no power to detain them. The full bench of the Federal Court ruled that the immigration minister had no power to detain asylum seekers before they were deported.

A South Australian lawyer, Paul Boylan, said last night Mr Masri was a genuine refugee who should have been allowed to stay but was instead sent back and assassinated. "He told his story and notwithstanding he had already been shot once, he wasn't believed," Mr Boylan said. "We sent him back to a place where he was assassinated."

The Jesuit priest Frank Brennan, a refugee advocate and author of a book on the immigration system, Tampering With Asylum, said it was clear that Mr Masri "like his brother, was a marked man".

Father Brennan, who knew Mr Masri well, described him as a young man who fled to a safe country in the hope that his family could follow. "He had a deep love of his wife and children, he wept for Palestine, and despite the dreadful adversity of Woomera, he always had a sense of humour."

A spokesman for the Social Justice Network, Jamal Daoud, said the Howard government had blood on its hands. "The previous Australian government is responsible for another terrible crime by forcing refugees to be sent back to Gaza when they knew the situation there," he said.

"This guy had problems with Israel and the Palestinian Authority. He claimed to have been tortured and the previous government knew all that and still forced him out. It is a tragedy because we have lost another young person who could have been a good Australian citizen."

with Penelope Debelle and AAP

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رد: كرم المصرى اسم نشر على اشهر جرائد العالم الادفيرتايزر

Immigration dept to look into Palestinian's death
August 2, 2008 - 1:52PM

Akram Al Masri. Photo: Bryan Charlton
The Immigration Department is to investigate the reported death of a Palestinian refugee previously denied a visa to stay in Australia.

But a department spokesman said today it could not be responsible for every deportee who had spent time in Australia.

Akram Al Masri was killed two days ago in the Gaza Strip, refugee advocates say.

The Federal Court in 2002 ordered Akram Al Masri be released from immigration detention, ruling the federal government did not have the right to detain him ahead of his deportation, despite his having been denied a temporary protection visa.

He left Australia a short time later.

At the time, Mr Al Masri said he feared for his life if forced to return to Israel. Even so, he said he would rather be returned home than go back to the detention centre.

"We are sad to hear of the apparent death of this gentleman, Mr Al Masri, and we extend our condolences to his family,'' the Immigration spokesman told AAP.

"I say that because we have not completely established the circumstances or the facts of what's happened here.

"The death of a father and husband is a tragedy for all those people who are left behind.

"However, we emphasise the fact that even if the person has spent some time in Australia, this does not mean that Australia is responsible for all events that may befall them in the future.''

He said people could face generalised dangers, hardships and uncertainty to varying degrees in different countries.

"However, we are not going to discuss this in further detail until we have properly investigated all the facts, which we will conduct as soon as possible,'' the spokesman said

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رد: كرم المصرى اسم نشر على اشهر جرائد العالم الادفيرتايزر

الله يرحمه ويغفرله

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رد: كرم المصرى اسم نشر على اشهر جرائد العالم الادفيرتايزر

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...htm?site=local


Refugee advocates say they were trying to bring back to Australia a Palestinian

refugee before he was shot dead in the Gaza Strip.

Akram Al Masri was was deported from Australia six years ago.

He was killed as he was leaving a Magistrate's Court yesterday.

Jack Smit from the refugee advocacy group Project Safecom has told ABC Radio's AM they had been trying to talk to Federal Immigration Minister Chris Evans about Mr Al Masri.

"In the hope that we may return him to Australia, so it's just comes as a sad note that we've sent him back to a very violent environment and he is now shot dead," Mr Smit said.

Immigration Minister Chris Evans has asked his department to confirm reports Mr Al Masri has been killed.

Earlier, an Immigration spokesman said the department was not aware of the circumstances surrounding Akram Al Masri's death, and does not keep track of people once they are deported.


Case history

In 2002 the Federal Court ruled that the then immigration minister did not have the power to detain Akram Al Masri prior to his deportation from Australia.

The case was seen as a blow to the Howard government's policy of detaining asylum seekers indefinitely and the Federal Court ruling was later upheld by the High Court.

Jack Smit says Mr Al Masri should have been granted asylum in Australia.

"It's a tragic story that could have been prevented if we were a bit more humane to asylum seekers who have a case," he said.

"He clearly had a case and if we hadn't have sent him away he could have been alive and well amongst us at the moment."

A Catholic welfare agency has warned dozens of refugees who were refused asylum by the Howard government are in dangerous situations like Mr Al Masri.

The director of the Edmund Rice Centre, Phil Glendenning, says there are many other refugees who are in a similar situation to Mr Al Masri.

"We have tracked down some 250 people in over 22 countries - for the majority of these people in particular those from Afghanistan who are on Nauru - they are living in dangerous circumstances," Mr Glendenning said.

Mr Glendenning says Mr Al Masri's death is a tragedy.

"Mr Al Masri told people in Australia that if he was sent back he would be killed. That has happened," he said.

"He said he would be killed, he has now been killed. He has a family of four that he leaves behind. This is an absolute tragedy."

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رد: كرم المصرى اسم نشر على اشهر جرائد العالم الادفيرتايزر

http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaust...in_gaza_553368
A Palestinian asylum seeker who told Australian authorities he was frightened to return to the Middle East has been killed in the Gaza Strip, refugee advocates say.

The Federal Court in 2002 ordered Akram Al Masri be released from immigration detention, ruling the federal government did not have the right to detain him ahead of his deportation, despite his having been denied a temporary protection visa.

He left Australia a short time later.

At the time, Mr Al Masri said he feared for his life if forced to return to Israel but said he'd rather be returned home than go back to the detention centre.

Sydney-based Social Justice Network spokesman Jamal Daoud tonight said Al Masri was shot dead in the Gaza Strip yesterday.

He said confirmation had come from Australian-based friends and family of the dead man.

"Our information is he was shot at 12 noon, 7pm Sydney time," Dauod told AAP.

"There was a fight between two families and, we understand, he was shot dead by a member of one of the families."

Al Masri's fight for asylum became a high profile showdown with former immigration minister Philip Ruddock after the federal court ordered his release from the detention.

Dauod said the Howard government had blood on its hands.

"The previous Australian government is responsible for another terrible crime by forcing refugees to be sent back to Gaza when they knew the situation there," he said.

"This guy had problems with Israel and the Palestinian Authority. He claimed to have been tortured and the previous government knew all that and still forced him out.

"It is a tragedy because we have lost another young person who who could have been a good Australian citizen."

Jack Smith, of Project SafeCom, said Mr Al Masri had been shot in the head.

"It's a tragic story that could have been prevented if we would have been a bit more humane to asylum seekers who have a case," Mr Smith told ABC Radio.

"And if we wouldn't have sent him away he may well be alive and well amongst us at the moment."

Refugee advocate Marilyn Shepherd told Fairfax Mr Al Masri's uncle had wanted his nephew to come back to Australia "because his life was in danger".

She said she and his uncle had been working with the office of the Immigration Minister Chris Evans to bring Mr Al Masri back, "but the department put the red flag up on us".

"That was in February, he filed an application with the immigration department," Ms Shepherd said.

They had not heard back.

"The name Al Masri would have put up a red flag," she said.

"He was gunned down in broad daylight in cold blood. His mother was killed before he claimed refugee status here, his brother was killed last year and he was gunned down yesterday like a dog on the side of the road."

Jesuit priest and supporter Frank Brennan said Mr Al Masri's supporters in Australia were devastated by the news.

"If Australia, in 2002, had been more generous to this Palestinian, Al Masri, his wife and his four children would now be permanent residents of Australia," Fr Brennan said.
Source: AAP/SBS

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رد: كرم المصرى اسم نشر على اشهر جرائد العالم الادفيرتايزر

رحمه الله وأسكنه الجنان

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رد: كرم المصرى اسم نشر على اشهر جرائد العالم الادفيرتايزر

طيب هو يعنى رجل مشهور
ولا شخصية عامة
ليش الكل بيكتب عنه؟

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رد: كرم المصرى اسم نشر على اشهر جرائد العالم الادفيرتايزر

اليوم رح يكون الوداع ابا على
الي الجنان باذنه تعالى

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رد: كرم المصرى اسم نشر على اشهر جرائد العالم الادفيرتايزر

اعزرونى لم يتسنى لى الوقت للترجمة للعربية ولكن ساقوم لاحقا

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رد: كرم المصرى اسم نشر على اشهر جرائد العالم الادفيرتايزر

اعزرونى لم يتسنى لى الوقت للترجمة للعربية ولكن ساقوم لاحقا

نحن في انتظار الترجمه

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رد: كرم المصرى اسم نشر على اشهر جرائد العالم الادفيرتايزر

ساقوم بالتلخيص
كل تلك الجرايد تقول انه كان قد اتى الى استراليا وطلب اللجوء فيها ولكن الجكومة تهت جون هاورد رجعته وهاو هو اليوم يقتل فى غزة فى شجار عائلى على يد احراد افراد امن الحكومة المقالة التابعة لحماس
وتقول الجريدة وايضا التلفزيون الاسترالى ان حكومة جون هورد مسئولة عن مقتله لانه اعاده الى غزة عام 2002

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رد: كرم المصرى اسم نشر على اشهر جرائد العالم الادفيرتايزر

أهااااا
بس يقال فى الشارع انه شقيق احد قيادات عائلة المصرى والمسؤول عن تسليح العائلة
صحيح هذا الكلام اخى فلسطينى الهوية؟

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رد: كرم المصرى اسم نشر على اشهر جرائد العالم الادفيرتايزر

اليوم رح يكون الوداع ابا على
الي الجنان باذنه تعالى