OUTRAGEOUS

 Submitted by: P McMillan\

Outrageous

I can not believe this mental torture, questioning him for 6hrs, confiscating cell phone for 3hrs, total isolation in a room, guarded by two policemen, without possibility to contact anybody on his team, and yet 3 other tennis players with the same visa medical exemption, entered Australia and will play in10 days. This is a “democratic treatment” of a best tennis player in the world, who sent millions of dollars for fire stricken population in Australia 2yrs ago, not to mentioned how much he popularized tennis down under and how much money and profit they got from him over the past 10 yrs. All of this is a BIG thank you to Djokovic. I hope he again wins a Big slam and shows them that they can not break him, no matter how hard they try. 

 

 

 

 

How about this?   

 



To say this happening in Australia is deeply mind boggling is an understatement . I hope there would vast criticism and condemnation of Australia  by entire world.

 

In spite of all my life experiences since the time as  kid  being under German Nazis bombardment of Belgrade, the communist takeover of Yugoslavia and growing under their dictatorship then escaping to America where I was admitted legally and to this very moment I have never seen anything as mean and in fact evil as this really  incredible behavior by  supposedly democratic state.   

 

/Australia used to be a very democratic and most pleasant state to live in.  My uncle lived there did whom I visited etic.  SHAME  O N THE GOVERNMENT .  It saddens me now very much to see what has happened to that country .  This incredible act  and treatment of Djokovic is behind any comments. It is truly evil inspired and in the end very harmful to Australian people.

M

 

5 Jan, 2022 18:34

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Djokovic ‘being treated like criminal’ at Australian airport – Serbian media

Novak Djokovic remains in custody in a Melbourne airport as his visa issues rumble on ahead of the Australian Open

Novak Djokovic is stuck at an Australian airport. © Instagram @djokernole

Serbian media is reporting that Novak Djokovic is being held in a single room by two guards and has been denied access to his team or the use of his mobile phone while his visa row continues with Australian authorities.

Just hours after it emerged that the world's number one tennis player had been granted a medical exemption to compete in this month's Australian Open in Melbourne – where he is hoping to win a fourth straight title – the Serb was hit with an unexpected twist.

Upon touching down in Melbourne at around 11.30pm local time, it emerged that Djokovic's team had failed to apply for the correct type of visa for an unvaccinated person seeking medical exemption – something which led to a swirl of further frustration from the local government, who refused a request from Border Patrol to sponsor his updated visa application.

READ MORE: Djokovic medical exemption process ‘equal & fair’ – Australian Open chief

The Border Patrol agents, however, are understood to have authority to release Djokovic into the country amid their strict Covid-19 guidelines – but until that time comes (if it does at all) the Serbian tennis great remains in custody.

And as Serbian publication Telegraph alleges, Djokovic remains under the supervision of two guards.

Telegraph also reports that his movement has been restricted to just one room and that he has received no access to members of his entourage. They also report that his mobile phone has been confiscated while he remains detained.

The publication goes on to suggest that Djokovic, who is hoping to break the all-time Grand Slam record in Melbourne Park later this month, is being treated "like a criminal" and the behavior towards him is "scandalous". 

Telegraph have also indicated that Djokovic was subject to an intensive questioning process in which guards would have likely grilled the Serb on his incorrect visa.

"Novak is currently in a room which no one can enter," the tennis player's father, Srdjan Djokovic, said to B92. "In front of the room are two policemen."

READ MORE: Djokovic ‘despised by all of Australia’ after medical exemption

His detention comes after Djokovic was listed among a "handful" of competitors to have received a medical exemption to compete in the upcoming event, news which almost certainly confirms that he remains unvaccinated against Covid-19.

Despite his high-profile inclusion, Tennis Australia chiefs stated that he was afforded no special treatment and that the process was "equal and fair".

The matter has incited fierce debate within Australia – with Prime Minister Scott Morrison warning Djokovic that he would be on the "next flight home" unless he could explain his reasoning for not receiving a vaccine.