Why I am suing the Australian government over my hotel detention after being brought from Manus Island | Mostafa Azimitabar
Medevac was supposed to give us access to medicine and healthcare but forced our bodies into small hotel rooms that we could not escape
For eight years, I felt the invisible sword of the Australian government piercing between my eyes with the message: “You are illegal, you are illiterate.”
I was in immigration detention, mostly on Manus Island. I came to Australia seeking safety, and ended up in Melbourne because of the medevac legislation – a bill that was supposed to give us access to medicine and healthcare but forced our bodies into small hotel rooms that we could not escape. I was in a room for 15 months. We are fighters, and yet we were punished for this with the weapon of politics when we arrived.
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