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.

Letters to Tyranny #69

Dear Prime Minister,

Behrouz Boochani and the other men on Manus Island, and the men, women and children on Nauru, have been kidnapped by a political whim of Australia and denied their rights under a regime that is unlawful yet pretends to use the language of the law. Free the asylum seekers, restore them to Australia and honour the international law that we profess to uphold.

 ‘For us there is no way ahead towards the future and no way behind to the past’

 ‘For us there is no way ahead towards the future and no way behind to the past’

Bring them here

Ruth Halbert

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