Imagine being locked up against your will for more than five years. How would you feel? This is the reality for refugees on Manus Island right now. I am a former refugee who spent 16 weeks in Curtin Immigration Detention Centre during the Howard era. The centre was horrible, barbaric, cruel and worse than prison.
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I was detained on Christmas Island in 2010 for 45 days. I came from Pakistan where I lived most of my life after my family and I fled civil war in Afghanistan. As a young Hazara man, I was then persecuted by state-funded terrorist groups and a religious portion of the community. My political views
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United Nations Human Rights Council, 40th session, February, March 2019 Oral statement by the Human Rights Law Centre Item 3, Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteurs on Torture and Human Rights Defenders Mr. President, My name is Abdul Aziz. I would like to invite you all to think about your life over the
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Kindness is ingrained among Australian people. A quality that’s sorely missed in its national policy, writes Brisbane based advocate Kagi Kowa. As a young woman fleeing prosecution, seeking safety in a new country was the only option I had. My cultural background is tribal indigenous African from the Nuba Mountains, we are the Indigenous people of
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I am Aziz Abdul Adam and I have been indefinitely detained on Manus Island for six years. Thank you for taking action to get kids and their families off Nauru for urgent medical treatment. I am so happy they are safe in Australia now. I have seen 12 of my brothers lose their lives from
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