Hussain Sadiqi

Hussain Sadiqi (Dari: حسین صادقی) is a Hazara Australian actor and martial artist.

[1] He won an award for the best fight scene for the Australian made action movie Among Dead Men at International Film Festival in Pasadena, California.

[2] An athlete in Afghanistan, Sadiqi left as the Taliban arrived and landed in Australia as a refugee in 1999 at Port Hedland Detention Centre.

After being released he was selected to compete for the Afghan Taekwondo team at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and carry his country's flag at the Opening Ceremony.

A couple of days before the Games started the International Olympic Committee banned the Afghan team because the Taliban, which controlled Afghanistan at the time, would not allow women to compete.