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 #10

Dear Prime Minister

The tenth asylum seeker, Mr XXX XXX, is one of the nearly 900 asylum seekers on Manus Island in limbo. According to the Papua New Guinea member of parliament for Manus Island, Mr Ronnie Knight, those who have been granted refugee status have no prospect of finding work nor making a life for themselves in impoverished PNG. As Mr Knight says "We cannot leave people in limbo like this." Australia put them there so they must take some responsibility.

How soon can Australia act on behalf of these vulnerable people?

Yours faithfully

Ruth Halbert

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