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 200th man on Manus island

Dear Prime Minister,

What is your response to the 108-page submission that has been presented to the International Criminal Court which asks the ICC prosecutor's office to investigate Australia's crimes against humanity in the offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru? That puts Australia in the same company as Congolese warlords and war criminals in South Ossetia.

Close the camps and bring them here.

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