Ruth Halbert
artist, weaver
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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.

All living creatures feel the meaning of freedom

Dear Prime Minister,

On 6 July 2017, Surena Mirzaei, a refugee illegally detained by Australia on Manus Island wrote:

“Trying of caterpillar to come out of cocoon.
All living creatures feel the meaning of freedom.
All of them try to get it.
What about human?
Human has high level between living creatures.
Human has morality.
For which reason, for what logic , a human must be in detention?”
— Surena Mirzaei

He accompanied his poem with this video:

Prime Minister, how do you answer?

Bring the refugees on Manus Island and Nauru here.

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