'Fazel is free now, God gave him a visa'

By Michael Gordon
Updated November 14 2015 - 1:23am, first published 12:15am
The riot at Christmas Island after the death of Fazel Chegeni. Photo: Peter Dutton's Office
The riot at Christmas Island after the death of Fazel Chegeni. Photo: Peter Dutton's Office
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton departs after addressing the media during a doorstop interview on the Christmas Island situation, at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton departs after addressing the media during a doorstop interview on the Christmas Island situation, at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

When Peter Dutton was asked this week how it was that Fazel Chegeni, a traumatised and stateless refugee, came to be detained with some of the country's "most hardened criminals" (his words) on Christmas Island, he wasn't the least bit fazed.

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