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Growing calls for government to help bring detained Australian home from Syria

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Politicians and humanitarian advocates are vowing to pursue the imprisonment of an Australian man detained in Syria without charge. Yusuf Zahab was a Sydney school boy when he was taken to the IS caliphate in Syria. He is appealing to the Australian government to help him return home.
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