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德约科维奇被禁赛后，边境部队对其他澳网球员进行调查
在世界排名第一的诺瓦克-德约科维奇被送入移民拘留所并被取消签证后，澳大利亚边境部队正在调查至少一名未接种疫苗的网球运动员和一名已经被允许进入该国的官员。
联邦当局也不排除在三年内禁止德约科维奇入境的可能性，因为这位塞尔维亚球星的父亲宣称他的儿子被 "澳大利亚囚禁"，成为 "自由世界的象征和领袖"。
被关押在卡尔顿公园酒店移民拘留所的德约科维奇周四在联邦巡回法院对边境部队的决定提出质疑，但由于澳大利亚网球公开赛于1月17日开始，他正面临着与时间赛跑的问题。
这位网球明星试图在周三晚上进入澳大利亚，理由是他在过去6个月里感染了COVID-19，因此有未接种疫苗的有效豁免，但这被边境部队拒绝了。
周四晚些时候，法院裁定授予德约科维奇一项临时禁令，该禁令将阻止他被驱逐出境，至少到下周一，同时他准备挑战拒绝他进入该国的决定。
代表移民部长Alex Hawke的大律师Christopher Tran说，政府并不反对该禁令。Anthony Kelly法官将此案押后到周一上午10点开始审理。
诺瓦克-德约科维奇正躲在酒店的隔离室里，他正在为避免被立即驱逐出澳大利亚而奋斗。
澳大利亚网球协会周四声称，其他澳大利亚网球公开赛参赛者在过去6个月中感染了COVID后被允许进入该国，使用的是德约科维奇申请的相同豁免。
这促使边境部队对其他球员和官员展开调查。联邦政府消息人士说，另外两人也可能违反了规定，但他说每个案例都是不同的，他们可能有其他有效的医疗原因没有接种疫苗。
内政部长Karen Andrews周四证实，边境部队目前正在调查这些指控，不排除有更多球员被送回国。
"我知道这些指控，我可以向你保证，澳大利亚边境部队现在正在进行调查，"Andrews女士告诉2GB。"ABF需要有机会能够进行调查。但如果证据不存在，那么他们将采取适当的行动。"
熟悉德约科维奇抵达时的文件的三个消息来源，以匿名方式发言，详细介绍了机密文件，说支持球员豁免的证据是 "最小的"，只得到一名医生的支持。他们说，这些证据远不如另一位以同样的疫苗豁免入境的球员和官员的实质性证据。
另一位球员和官员有不止一位医生支持他们之前感染COVID的说法，而一位消息人士说，德约科维奇的大部分文件都是用澳大利亚网球协会的信纸。当边境官员要求他和维多利亚州政府提供更多的文件时，没有人出示。
"这完全不够，他无法提供任何新的东西。在这种情况下，我们还能做什么？"一位联邦高级人士说。
澳大利亚网球协会的官员私下里对联邦政府周四的决定感到愤怒。一位消息人士说，此举似乎是出于政治动机，希望针对一个高调的疫苗怀疑论者来提高政府的知名度。他们说，德约科维奇的Instagram帖子和随后的媒体关注引发了联邦政府采取强硬立场的动机。
"我不知道联邦政府将如何[处理]几位网球运动员已经在国内获得了与诺瓦克相同的豁免的事实，"该消息人士说。"在我们看来，这就像是联邦调查局在回应媒体，让一些球员入境，而不是世界第一。"
这位20次大满贯得主面临着因签证失误而被禁止进入澳大利亚的前景。联邦法律规定，任何被取消签证的人都可能面临长达3年的禁止再次进入澳大利亚的禁令，尽管边境部队对何时实施这些禁令有自由裁量权，而且不太可能对一个可能无意中犯错的人实施禁令。
如果该人的签证被取消，因为他们 "被认为对澳大利亚社会的健康、安全或良好秩序构成风险"，则可以实施禁令。
消息人士证实，政府不排除对德约科维奇实施禁令，但警告说这将取决于法庭上的程序和德约科维奇的下一步行动。
联邦卫生当局两次以书面形式告诉澳大利亚网球协会的老板Craig Tiley，在过去6个月里没有接种疫苗并感染了COVID-19的人将不会被批准到澳大利亚进行免检疫旅行。
"关于你的具体问题，我可以确认，在六个月内感染COVID-19并试图从海外进入澳大利亚的人，如果没有接受两剂治疗商品管理局（TGA）批准的或TGA认可的疫苗......不被视为完全接种，"卫生部长Greg Hunt于11月29日写信给Tiley先生。
澳大利亚网球协会在收到该建议后写信给球员，但没有警告他们有关疫苗的要求。
德约科维奇的父亲Srdjan Djokovic告诉塞尔维亚报纸Telegraf，他的儿子 "今晚被澳大利亚囚禁，但他从未如此自由"。
"他说："从这一刻起，诺瓦克已经成为自由世界的象征和领导者，成为贫穷和弱势国家和人民的世界。
"今晚他们可以囚禁他，明天他们可以用铁链锁住他，但真理如水，它总是会找到自己的路。"
澳大利亚时间周四晚上，塞尔维亚总统亚历山大-武契奇在贝尔格莱德的新闻发布会上说，他已经和德约科维奇进行了第二次交谈。
据塞尔维亚媒体报道，武契奇先生说，塞尔维亚总理安娜-布尔纳比奇正在恳求澳大利亚当局将这位冠军从 "这个臭名昭著的酒店搬到他所租的房子里，这样他就可以四处走动"。
武契奇总统说："这就是诺瓦克向他的国家提出的要求，我们有责任保障我们的公民，"。
"以澳大利亚总理为首的政治追逐正在发生，这是不公平的。他们允许类似的球员进入，但不允许诺瓦克-德约科维奇进入。大家都很清楚正在发生什么。我不是一个喜欢拐弯抹角的人，我不害怕说出真相。我的工作是保护塞尔维亚的公民和真相"。
德约科维奇的签证是在11月作为自动程序的一部分被批准的。
移民部前副部长Abul Rizvi周四表示，移民当局应该在德约科维奇最初申请签证时询问他的疫苗接种情况，以及他可能寻求的任何豁免。
但总理斯科特-莫里森说，签证审批程序与边境的其他入境要求是分开的，比如证明疫苗接种状况。
"莫里森先生说："顺便说一句，人们一直试图在边境上跑来跑去。
"你知道，人们拿着签证来，但可能不符合其他入境要求，人们被送上飞机，又被送回。看过边境巡逻队节目的人都会明白这一点。"
到了晚上8点左右，约有20人留在德约科维奇被带走的卡尔顿公园酒店附近的一个公园里，以示对这位网球名将的支持，其中一些人穿着传统的塞尔维亚服装，挥舞着塞尔维亚国旗。
该酒店曾被用来拘留难民和寻求庇护的人。周四下午，一小群约十几名抗议者在该酒店举行示威，试图让人们关注被拘留者的困境。
周四晚上，靠近酒店的Swanston街地区仍然双向关闭，支持者们等待着通过酒店的窗户瞥见这位网球明星。
Marta Pascual Juanola报道
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Border Force investigating other Australian Open players after Djokovic ban
Australian Border Force is investigating at least one unvaccinated tennis player and one official who have already been allowed into the country after world No.1 Novak Djokovic was sent to immigration detention and had his visa cancelled.
Federal authorities have also not ruled out banning Djokovic from entering the country for three years, as the Serbian star’s father declared his son was being held in “Australian captivity” and had become the “the symbol and the leader of the free world”.
Djokovic, who is being held at the immigration detention at the Park Hotel in Carlton, on Thursday launched a challenge in the Federal Circuit Court to Border Force’s decision, but he is facing a race against time with the Australian Open beginning on January 17.
The tennis star tried to enter Australia on Wednesday night on the basis that he had contracted COVID-19 in the past six months and therefore had a valid exemption for being unvaccinated, but this was rejected by Border Force.
The court late on Thursday ruled to grant Djokovic an interim injunction that will prevent him being deported until at least Monday while he prepares to challenge the decision to deny his entry to the country.
Barrister Christopher Tran, acting for Immigration Minister Alex Hawke, said the government did not oppose the injunction. Judge Anthony Kelly adjourned the case to be heard from 10am on Monday.
Novak Djokovic is holed up in hotel quarantine as he fights to avoid immediate deportation from Australia.
Tennis Australia claimed on Thursday that other Australian Open participants have been allowed into the country after contracting COVID in the past six months, using the same exemption that Djokovic applied for.
This prompted Border Force to launch investigations into the other player and official. Federal government sources said the two others might also fall foul of the rules, but said every case was different, and they may have other valid medical reasons for not being vaccinated.
Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews on Thursday confirmed Border Force was now investigating the allegations and didn’t rule out more players being sent back home.
“I’m aware of those allegations, and I can assure you that the Australian Border Force is investigating that now,” Ms Andrews told 2GB. “ABF needs the opportunity to be able to conduct its investigation. But if the evidence is not there, then they will take the appropriate action.”
Three sources familiar with Djokovic’s paperwork on arrival, speaking anonymously to detail confidential documentation, said evidence to support the player’s exemption was “minimal” and was only supported by one doctor. They said it was far less substantive than that of the other player and official who entered the country with the same vaccine exemption.
The other player and the official had more than one doctor supporting their claims of prior COVID infection, while one source said most of Djokovic’s paperwork was on a Tennis Australia letterhead. When border officials asked him and the Victorian government to supply more documentation, none was produced.
“It was totally insufficient and he couldn’t produce anything new. What else were we meant to do in the situation?” one senior Commonwealth source said.
Tennis Australia officials were privately fuming about the federal government’s decision on Thursday. One source said the move appeared to be motivated by politics and a desire to target a high-profile vaccine sceptic to boost the government’s popularity. They said Djokovic’s Instagram post and subsequent media interest sparked the federal government’s motivation to take a hard line.
“I don’t know how the feds will [address the fact that] several tennis players are already in the country with the same exemption granted to Novak,” the source said. ”This looks to us like the feds are responding to the media by letting some players in but not the world No.1.”
The 20-time grand slam winner faces the prospect of being banned from Australia as a result of the visa bungle. Federal law dictates anyone whose visa is cancelled can face a ban on re-entering Australia of up to three years, though Border Force has discretion on when to apply these bans and it is unlikely to be slapped on a person who may have made unintentional errors.
The ban can be imposed if the person’s visa was cancelled because they were “considered to be a risk to the health, safety or good order of the Australian community”.
Sources confirmed that the government had not ruled out imposing the ban on Djokovic, but cautioned this would depend on how the process plays out in court and Djokovic’s next moves.
Federal health authorities told Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley on two occasions in writing that people who were not vaccinated and had contracted COVID-19 in the past six months would not be granted quarantine-free travel to Australia.
“In relation to your specific questions, I can confirm that people who contracted COVID-19 within six months and seek to enter Australia from overseas, and have not received two doses of a Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)-approved or TGA-recognised vaccine ... are not considered fully vaccinated,” Health Minister Greg Hunt wrote to Mr Tiley on November 29.
Tennis Australia wrote to players after receiving that advice but did not warn them about the vaccine requirement.
Djokovic’s father Srdjan Djokovic told Serbian newspaper Telegraf that his son is “tonight in Australian captivity, but he has never been more free”.
“From this moment, Novak has become the symbol and the leader of the free world, the world of the poor and disadvantaged nations and peoples,” he said.
“Tonight they can imprison him, tomorrow they can chain him, but the truth is like water and it will always find its way. ”
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday night Australian time said at a press conference in Belgrade he had talked to Djokovic a second time.
Mr Vucic said Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic was pleading with Australian authorities to move the champion from “this infamous hotel to the house he has rented, so he can move around”, Serbian media reported.
“That’s what Novak has requested from his country and it is our duty to safeguard our citizens,” President Vucic said.
“It’s not fair that a political chase is happening headed by the Prime Minister of Australia. They have allowed in similar players, but not Novak Djokovic. It is clear to everyone what is happening. I am not one to mince words, I am not afraid of speaking the truth. My job is to shield the citizens of Serbia and the truth.“
Djokovic’s visa was approved in November as part of an automated process.
Former deputy secretary of the Department of Immigration, Abul Rizvi, on Thursday said immigration authorities should have asked Djokovic questions about his vaccination status, and any exemptions he might have been seeking, when he initially applied for a visa.
But Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the visa approval process was separate from other requirements for entry at the border such as proving vaccination status.
“People try to run the border all the time, by the way,” Mr Morrison said.
“You know, people come with a visa but may not satisfy other requirements for entry, and people are put on planes and turned back all the time. Anybody who’s watched the Border Patrol shows will understand that.”
By about 8pm a group of about 20 people remained at a park close to the Park Hotel in Carlton, where Djokovic had been taken, to show their support for the tennis great, with some wearing traditional Serbian dress and waving Serbian flags.
The hotel has been used to detain refugees and people seeking asylum. A small group of about a dozen protesters staged a demonstration at the hotel on Thursday afternoon in an attempt to bring attention to the plight of the detainees.
The area of Swanston Street close to the hotel remained closed to traffic in both directions on Thursday evening as supporters waited to catch a glimpse of the tennis star through the hotel windows.
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