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 #70

Dear Prime Minister,

On behalf of the 70th asylum seeker on Manus Island, Mr XXX XXX, aged XX from XXX, it is increasingly urgent that you move the men from detention on Manus Island to Australia and expedite their applications for asylum. Papua New Guinea is moving to close the detention centre and Australia must finally take responsibility for the men we have illegally abandoned there.

Bring them here

Ruth Halbert

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