Amnesty International Australia
Defending Human Rights
Following the formal closure of the Manus Island detention centre, Imran Mohammad, a 23-year-old Rohingya from Myanmar, describes its impact on the people detained there. Making a bad situation worse The refugees and asylum seekers on Manus Island are at the lowest point of their lives. There are no words to describe the pressure the …
Continue reading “Closing Manus Island: an inside perspective”
Imran Mohammad is a 23-year-old stateless Rohingya from Myanmar currently imprisoned on Manus Island. Here, together with other Rohingya people trapped on Manus, he writes an open letter to the Australian Government about the plight of the Rohingya. The whole world is watching as tens of thousands of Rohingya people flee for their lives, escaping …
Continue reading “The plight of the Rohingya: an open letter to Malcolm Turnbull”
By Imran Mohammad Somewhere in our hearts, we had hoped that we would be moved to safety by the end of October this year when this prison — Manus RPC Concentration Camp — was closed down. However, these hopes were dashed when another devastating announcement was made on 15 May by Papua New Guinea Immigration, which has …
Continue reading “All we want is a life we can create in safety”
By Imran Mohammad, winner of the 2016 Amnesty Blogging Competition There is a very small area of land on the western coast of northern Myanmar called Rakhine State, where a group of people are not able to speak for themselves. This cultural group, the Rohingya, is losing its people, culture, traditions, language and land. These are …
Continue reading “‘My relatives walked over 5,000 kilometers to reach Saudi Arabia’”
Imran Mohammad is Amnesty International Australia’s Blogging Competition 2016 winner. Imran, now 22, fled Myanmar at age 16 and taught himself to read and write English while being held on Manus Island. Here is his powerful winning entry. I’m a passionate young writer incarcerated by the Australian Government for over three years on Manus Island, PNG. …
