Mohammed is an Hazara and a former Mujahideen fighter in the civil war against the pro-Soviet Afghan Government. After the Taliban took control of the country he fled Afghanistan but ended up in detention on Nauru. Australia sent him back to Afghanistan in 2002 and told him the country was now safe.

"'We turned our faces towards the defenders of humanity. And now we are grateful for the Taliban and loathe this man.? I'm a half poet, and back in Nauru, I said this about John Howard. We can't complain about the Taliban because they were illiterate and crazy. But this man was a Prime Minister." - Mohammed

*Postscript: Since completing A Well-Founded Fear Phil Glendenning has confirmed that Mohammed Hussain was tortured and brutally killed in Gazni province in September 2008.