Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that Mr Zainullah Naseri, a Hazara man and the first Afghan forcibly removed by the Australian Government, was tortured by the Taliban on his return;

(b) agrees That the security situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating and remains extremely dangerous for Hazaras; and

(c) calls on the Government to:

(i) issue a moratorium on the forced return of asylum seekers back to Afghanistan, and

(ii) send a contingent of officials to Afghanistan to investigate the security situation there and in the Hazara region of Ghazni and report to Parliament on their return.

Senator Kim Carr interjecting—