Ruth Halbert
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Blog: Dear Prime Minister

On July 30 2016 I started writing letters to the Prime Minister of Australia to protest against the imprisonment and torture of the asylum seekers in the offshore detention centres of Manus Island and Nauru. I started with the intention of writing a letter a day for every person in detention until they are all freed. There are more than 1800 asylum seekers in off shore detention. These are those letters and any response from Mr Turnbull.

For the 211th man on Manus Island

Dear Prime Minister,

On behalf of the 211th man on Manus Island and all prisoners of Australia's offshore detention regime, what urgent steps are you, the health minister and the immigration minister taking to protect all our prisoners on Nauru from the current outbreak of dengue fever? According to Guardian Australia

“The Nauruan hospital was unprepared for the outbreak, and ... it has no testing kits for the disease.”
— https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/25/dengue-fever-outbreak-on-nauru-threatens-health-system

There are more than 70 known cases of dengue fever on Nauru, including ten asylum seekers. Their health is our responsibility.

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