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Australian immigration authorities are refusing to let asylum seekers held in offshore detention be present at the birth of their children.

Iranian Kurd Mohammad Farahi said the Australian Border Force and officials on Nauru were refusing to let him travel to Brisbane to be with his heavily pregnant wife, who was flown to Australia for treatment after being diagnosed with dengue fever. Another four men on Nauru have never seen their infant children because of the same restriction, including one man who was encouraged to relinquish custody of his daughter in order to be resettled in the United States.

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Alex McKinnon, The Saturday Paper