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Podcast: 4PR - Voice of the People
Episode: Interview with Farhad formerly in Exile on Main Street
Description: Farhad under detention on Main Street Kangaroo Point.
Andy (Paradigm Shift, 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Fridays at noon) interviews Farhad Rhamati a refugee from Iran who has been held at a detention centre in Brisbane CBD for 18 months. Farad tells the story of how he came to be here firstly under Labor's 2013 policy of refusing entry and then under the Medivac Bill passed in the federal parliament in 2019. Now under Covid 19 he is locked up in Brisbane with other asylum seekers.
He tells the sad story of how he lost he friend Reza Berati murdered by G4S guards on Manus.
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