Take me out of fences and bars

January 5, 2018 Ruth Halbert

Dear Prime Minister,

I (a manus refugee) want to share my feeling with lovely people of Australia. I did not decide to flee my country and family but the war and situation force me to leave my country. I have known a humanitarian country called Australia which gave safety to oppressed and coerced people like me in past. Not in my case Australian Government give me five and continue years of imprisonment for seeking asylum, unaccountable torture, suffering, wounds and cries, deaths of my friends. I live a life where system kill my every day every hour every minutes while my same boat people released in Australian community since 2013. Two years before I got positive refugee status am still in detention. Tomorrow 2018 will start. I am begging for mercies. Let me and people like me on Manus, go. Take me out of fences and bars......

A Manus refugee

Prime Minister, I beg you, let this man go. Let all the refugees detained on Manus and Nauru go to safety and freedom.