1) Warning: This post contains self-harm and suicide.
“Please, I just want to hug my son, just for one minute.”You know our friend Saif.He’s the man who stands up on the balcony with a photo of his wife&son.The man who’s been in the Kangaroo Point Concentration Camp

2) for over a year now, and six years before that in an offshore concentration camp, the man who hasn’t ever been charged with a crime, has never seen a court room, and yet doesn’t know when he’ll be freed, if ever.

The man who just wants to hug his little son.

3) This morning, at 3:30am, on the 2654th day of his imprisonment, our beloved friend Saif tied a rope around his neck and threw himself off the balcony at the Kangaroo Point CentralApartments.He wanted to die. He tried to do it. Some guards stopped him just before he could.

4) Saif has a son who just wants a hug, and he still tried to die.

It was dark. His wife Sabbah is in hospital and some of us are looking after his son Saami. He’d asked yet again to visit them, and again they said no.
He tied a noose.

5) Maybe it was difficult, maybe his hands were shaking. Most people don’t have much experience tying nooses, but in this building many have tried.He walked outside. He tied the noose to the railing. Over the wall, across the street, dark houses, full of sleeping people

6) free people, people with families, loved ones, lives well lived.
He put the loop over his neck, put a leg up on the rail, ready to leave this life—to die without hugging his own son.
Imagine how dark a place our friends must live in to want to die like that.

How can anybody justify any of this, for anything, in any way?
Some guards got him down just before he died.
He was not taken to hospital. He was not taken to hospital. He threw himself off a balcony with a noose around his neck, and he was not taken to hospital.

8) He was taken to high-security prison at BITA.
This is because, for them, the idea of him escaping to freedom is worse than the idea of his death.Later, one of our other friends saw a guard break down and cry. But he’ll be back at work tomorrow, guarding a concentration camp

9) full of people who just wanted a safe place to live.
This all happened at 721 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, in so-called Brisbane. In your city. In the country you live in.
Why has he been imprisoned for over seven years?
Why are any of these people in prison at all?

10) Why can’t a wonderful, gentle, loving man just hug his little son?

When will they be free?

When will they be free?

When will they be free?

When will they be free?

When will they be free?

When will they be free?

When will they be free

@ScottMorrisonMP divides beautiful families. Detention kills