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,
Here is a note from the 170th man on Manus Island to the Australian people.
‘We are still suffering’: a hand written note from a Sudanese detainee on Manus Island.
Photograph: David T Young/Penny Ryan
Now that he has told us of the suffering on Manus Island how can we let it continue when it is our actions that cause his suffering?
