The refugee, known as Jamal, described the anguish that led him to a drastic act, setting himself on fire while in detention on the Pacific island of Nauru………………..
His lawyer, Alison Battisson, worked to extract 110 people from Afghanistan when Kabul fell to the Taliban last year. She said that was a simpler process than trying to free her client……..
"He is someone who put himself and his family in danger to assist the coalition's fight against the Taliban.
"He worked to keep the rest of the world safe and in his hour of need, not only did we abandon him, but we sent him to a place that has torture-like conditions ... This is not the Australian way."