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Refugee detained in Brisbane for seven years pleads for government not to take away his phone – By Peter Bugden Phone support: “Their mental health is so poor because they’ve been locked up so long now and there’s no hope of a resolution; they feel quite hopeless.” Source:CatholicLeader “PLEASE, we are human … So please, please, consider and treat us as human beings,” is the plea of a Sri Lankan refugee languishing in detention in Brisbane on hearing the news that the Australian Government could take away his mobile phone. Raj is a Tamil refugee, a businessman from Sri Lanka who Australia has held in immigration detention for seven years. As a political refugee he is afraid to give his full name, and he doesn’t want his parents back home to know what he is going through.   ...