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.
Dear Prime Minister
‘We are human being like you, why your government treats us like that’: a message from a detainee on Manus Island.
Photograph: David T Young/Penny Ryan
Prime Minister Turnbull, I want to know the answer to this question too. Why does the Australian government treat this man on Manus Island, and all the off shore detainees like animals in cages?
Bring them here.
