MELBOURNE - Mohammed Sagar, the Iraqi refugee who has spent five years in detention on Nauru, is to be resettled in a Scandinavian country.
Mr Sagar, the last of about 1500 asylum seekers who tried to come to Australia by boat in 2001, has told Fairfax the news
was still sinking in.
"I feel like it is an imaginary thing and cannot take it as reality," Mr Sagar says in The Age today.
"I am just glad I will be able to get my life back."
The newspaper also says it was the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) that negotiated the resettlement of Mr Sagar in an undisclosed Scandinavian country.
Mr Sagar has been held on the island because of a negative security assessment by Australian authorities.
- AAP
