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.

End offshore detention. Close the camps #314

Dear Prime Minister,

The rolling demolition at the Manus RPC continues as Foxtrot compound is destroyed. Men are forced to sleep wherever they can. 850 men have no where to go. Lorengau Transit centre has no space to accommodate more people. Despite being called a Transit Centre, the men already there are not in transit to anywhere. They, like the men in the camp, are stuck in limbo. As Senator McKim says 'for pity's sake, bring them here.'

Senator Nick McKim

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