Cisarua, West Java: A man whose Afghan-Australian father was murdered by the Taliban last week has been denied refugee status by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Sayed Habib Musawi was killed on a visit home to Afghanistan last week, when the Taliban plucked him off a bus, tortured and murdered him, then left his body on a roadside.

Sayed Najibullah Musawi, known as Najib, says his father was visiting Najib's wife and children when he was killed. Credit:Michael Bachelard

His son, an asylum seeker in Indonesia, says the UNHCR recently rejected his own claim for asylum.

Sayed Najibullah Musawi, known as Najib, also revealed that his father was in Afghanistan to visit Najib's wife and children.