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 122nd man on Manus Island

Dear Prime Minister,

Hamid Kehazaei died from a treatable infection because DIBP staff deliberately prevented his treatment. There are ill men on Manus Island now who cannot get proper medical treatment and they are afraid that they will also die. How can you say that the prison on Manus Island saves lives by deterring boat arrivals when Australian bureaucrats run it so badly that the prisoners die there?

Bring them here

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