Adnan* says he had never heard of Nauru when Australian Border Force officers showed up at his door in the middle of the night to inform him Nauru had granted him a 30-year visa.

Initially believing Nauru was part of Australia, Adnan felt a brief sense of relief before he realised he was being sent back to a place he had become uncomfortably familiar with – immigration detention.

“I thought there had been a mistake. I hadn’t had a lawyer for years, and I had never really understood what was happening in my case,” he told Guardian Australia through his lawyer. Australia lacks ‘legitimate objective’ in fast-tracking Nauru deportations, Labor-led committee finds Read more

“I have been in detention since, trying to figure out how all of this happened to me, and why I have been selecte

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