Afghan refugee in Australia pleads to return and rescue family

Afghan refugee in Australian detention grows increasingly desperate as US troops withdraws from Afghanistan.

An Afghan refugee who has been held in Australian immigration detention for more than eight years is pleading for his release in a bid to return to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and rescue his family following the withdrawal of US troops on Tuesday. The refugee, who for his family’s safety can only be identified as FGS20, a pseudonym used in court proceedings, worked alongside coalition forces in Afghanistan after the United States military invaded the country and toppled the Taliban government in 2001. At the beginning of this month, as the Taliban retook one Afghan city after another, FGS20 filed an application for emergency evacuation visas for his wife and four children.