Muzhda Habibi murder case: Appeal for govt help to get family into Australia to care for alleged victim’s children

A fight is being waged to unite two tiny boys - left with no one after their mum was allegedly murdered by her husband and his brother - with family trapped on the other side of the world.

Muzhda Habibi, 23, was found unconscious and unresponsive in her Springfield Home. Photo: supplied

Advocates are calling on the federal government to help speed up the process to bring the grandmother and an uncle of two children who have been left parentless to Australia, a month after their mother was allegedly murdered by their father and his brother.

Muzhda Habibi, 23, was found unresponsive in her Springfield Lakes home on May 16.

Ms Habibi’s 26-year-old husband Masihullah Habibi and his 28-year-old brother Khalilullah Habibi, both from Springfield Lakes, have each been charged with one count of murder (domestic violence offence).

Muzhda Habibi, 23, with one of her children. Picture: Supplied

Speaking outside court, family spokeswoman and women’s advocate Rita Anwari said the uncle has been in contact with the children over Zoom but the community’s aim was to get the family reunited.

Ms Anwari said she was working to get the uncle and grandmother out of the United Kingdom and Spain but it had been difficult because they were only permanent residents there and it was tricky getting them over on Afghanistan paperwork.

Family spokeswoman and women’s advocate Rita Anwari. Picture: Dan Peled / NewsWire

“I have been acting on behalf of the family and preparing all the paperwork and also we have immigration lawyers helping us with that as well,” she said.

“We need support from the federal government to make the process faster and easier for the children to be with their family.”

She said it had already been difficult for the kids.

“These children [have] gone through already almost a month or so. They need their family to be close to them,” she said.

The funeral for Muzhda Habibi. Picture: Liam Kidston.

“That’s [why] I’m trying to get this to happen, and it will happen because I’m not going to leave it like this.

“I will fight for it, to get this mother, grandmother and uncle back in Australia for the children, for the sake of the children.

“The children are motherless and fatherless, we have got no one in Australia. It’s we as a community getting together to get them with their family.”

The matters of Masihullah Habibi and his 28-year-old brother Khalilullah Habibi were mentioned in Ipswich Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

It was adjourned until July 9 with a brief of evidence required on August 20.

A Department of Home Affairs spokesman said it could not comment on individual cases.

“All non-citizens who wish to enter or remain in Australia must satisfy the requirements of the Migration Act 1958 (the Act) and the Migration Regulations 1994, including identity, health, character and security requirements,” he said.

“Where a visa applicant has compelling and compassionate reasons for travel, they should provide these at the time of submitting the visa application, to allow the Department to consider this information.”

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