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 #9

Dear Prime Minister

The ninth asylum seeker trapped on Manus Island is Mr XXX XXX from XXX. I do not know if Mr XXX knows the man I wrote to you about yesterday, but I am sure that he is aware that he too, like all the asylum seekers, is vulnerable to untreated life-threatening conditions because the medical care for them is 'medieval'. It is so bad that more than one hundred cases are currently being investigated by Doctors for Refugees.

To know about this and do nothing to fix it is unconscionable. What are you doing about it, Mr Turnbull?

Yours faithfully

Ruth Halbert

 

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