Today, academics and students held simultaneous actions on university campuses around Australia to protest against the government's ongoing and indefinite detention of refugees, including children, on Manus and Nauru Islands.
At the University of Technology Sydney, academics read from Behrouz Boochani’s, ‘No Friend But the Mountains’, a book about his long years in Manus Island Detention Centre. Boochani, a Kurdish Iranian journalist, artist and refugee, is still being held on Manus, after 5 years of imprisonment, with no sign of release.
The action was organized by Academics for Refugees and the National Teachers and Education Union (NTEU).
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