Iranian Kurdish journalist Behrouz Bouchani writes from Manus Island,where he has been held for 28 months, experiencing ‘profound and annihilating mental torture’Twenty-eight months ago, and with a shattered body which was ravenously hungry and deeply wounded,with bare feet and exhausted soul, I made the trip to the soil of free territory, or to Australia. It was four days after the announcing the 19th of July law. Because of the law,I was exiled to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, in the heart of the Pacific Ocean; and according to this law, and it has been 28 months that I am being under pressure and being tortured.
The 19th of July law enforced the transfer of people who arrive by boat and seek asylum to the offshore detentions. It is noteworthy to mention that this law started to be exercised when our broken boat with 65 unconscious passengers was lost over the ocean. When we reached the soil of Australia,we found out approximately this cruelty.
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Source: theguardian.com