Our father, Mo, is subject to an unjust travel ban imposed by Mongolian authorities.   Unless the travel ban is lifted, our father will die in Mongolia of chronic and acute health problems.  Treatment is available in Australia and the UK which can save our father (dad is a dual national).

Our father was a mining business man.  He worked around Asia, and his companies purchased and sought to develop significant assets in Mongolia.  As such, he became a target for asset stripping.  

To get his company’s assets, senior Mongolian politicians and corrupt Mongolian business people conspired to fabricate a case against him.  They weaponised the Mongolian courts, denied our father procedural fairness and charged dad with a crime that didn’t even exist at the time he allegedly committed it.  The Mongolian Courts imposed a seven year prison sentence which was served in a high security jail where our father was isolated from the outside world including us, his family. He spent two years in solitary confinement.  He was exposed to violence, beaten and denied basic sanitary conditions.  He lived with overflowing toilets and was only allowed to wash fortnightly.  He almost died.

As part of the sentence dad has to pay a substantial amount of damages and compensation to the so-called victim.  This is a further attempt to asset strip our father.   But dad has no assets left.  During his incarceration, all of the assets of dad and his companies were expropriated. 

The years of forced separation have resulted in dad missing countless invaluable family moments: high school and university graduations, his own mother’s funeral, and the births of three grandchildren who he has never seen or held. The emotional toll is profound, and over this period his physical health has been failing too, causing immense pain and suffering for him and the entire family. 

The emotional toll, however, is not the only consequence as our father's health has significantly deteriorated during his imprisonment in Mongolia. Dad urgently needs medical attention to treat cardiac, renal, cardiovascular and prostate health issues—ailments that have been caused and exacerbated by the mistreatment and cruel inhumane conditions he endured whilst incarcerated. Our father will die unless he receives specialised medical care available in Australia or the UK. It’s heartbreaking to watch as his health deteriorates. Dad has served his full prison sentence and it is long overdue that we get him home. 

The travel ban does not serve any purpose other than to prolong his suffering, keep him away from his family, and isolate and silence him from telling the world about what the Mongolian authorities have been doing to him over the past ten years. 

Dad’s presence is deeply missed by his family who yearn only to offer him the love and care he desperately needs, especially considering his health condition and his age of 65 years. We need him just as much as he needs us.  We just want to hug him.

We appeal to the Mongolian authorities as well as Australian and British governments and international human rights organizations to facilitate the immediate lifting of our father’stravel ban. 

Sign this petition to help reunite my father with his family and restore his access to critical medical care and a compassionate, dignified life. Let us stand together in demanding justice and reuniting a loving father with his family. His life depends on it.