Letters to Jenny Riley from Mohammad Taqi, including one letter in Dari.

Letters between asylum seekers and Australian correspondents, including some letters in Dari. Letter writers include:
Annabel Pengilley
Yazdan Ali Quasmi
Abdul Hakim Qurbanzada
Hussein Ali Rahemi
Abdul Ahad Rezaie
Mohsen Salehi
Ghullam Hassan Sanglakhi
Hussaini Sayed Shahi
Mohammad Jawad Shirzad
Mohhamad Zahir Soltani

Letters from unidentified asylum seekers, most written in Dari, including a personal account in English of being transferred from the Tampa to Nauru aboard the naval vessel Manoora.

Mass declarations by asylum seekers and related correspondence, including some material in Dari. The declarations follow a standard format, with each signatory declaring she or he is being detained on Nauru against their will and instructing pro bono lawyers to take legal proceedings on their behalf.

Forms produced by Spare Rooms for Refugees and completed by asylum seekers detained on Nauru. By adding their names to the forms, asylum seekers accepted an offer by Australian volunteers to correspond with them, supply books, clothes and other goods, and act as informal guardians in dealings with government and refugee agencies.

Photocopies and prints of photographs, showing children, women and men in detention in Nauru, Kate Durham visiting the Nauru detention centre in August 2004, a family being reunited at an airport, and Philip Ruddock, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, 2003-2004, 30 photographs. Folder also contains a satirical comic strip about the plight of asylum seekers, four copies of a satirical sketch of Prime Minister John Howard and two postcards featuring artwork by Kate Durham.

Reports, articles and newspaper cuttings relating to the Tampa and SIEV X events, the Australian Government’s policies on asylum seekers arriving by boat, the treatment of asylum seekers intercepted by the Australian Defence Forces and Customs, and the conditions and treatment of asylum seekers detained in Nauru and elsewhere, 2002-2003. Includes reports and accounts of Kate Durham’s visit to the Nauru detention centre in 2002.

The box also contains envelopes, unaccompanied by letters, addressed to Jenny Riley and others from the following correspondents:
Mohammad Zahir Soltani
Ghulam Hazrat Payadar
Rahama and Rostam Ali
Ewaz Ali
Ali Mohammadi (detainee number 225)
Ali Yawer Hussaini
Abdullah Maqsoodi
Hussain Dad Yawari
Detainee number 186, name not disclosed
Abdullah Maqsoodi
Hussaindad
Sharaza (detainee number 03-306)
Mohammad Ghulam Hazrat
Detainee number 74y, name not disclosed
Gazhihkil Assadullah
Ghulam Nabi Wahidi
Council on the Ageing (Victoria)
Reza (detainee number 1-18)
Mohammad Raza Amir
Jamshed Khan Mohmaud
Ewaz Ali
Nasir Haydari
Khalili
[first name incomplete] Jamshidie
Mohammad Yasin Hamzaie
Ali Y Mullaie
Nick Mohammad Hussaini
Mohammad Jafar Ahmadi
Abbas Ali Taj
Amir Awaz Ahmadi
Amiri Mohammad Raza
Mohammad Zaher Dulat Shahi
Mohammad [last name indecipherable] (detainee number 01-019)
Shahreza
Niamatullah Khalili
Keith Davis
Susan Mizrahi
Ewaz Ali
Amir Ewaz
Mohammad Hashim Hussaini
Amir Ewaz Ahmadi
Esmatullah and Abdul Ahad
Abrahim Mirzaee
Ali Asghan
Ali Zafar Ibrahim Nezad
Boomana
Mohammad Reza
Mirza Hussain Ayubi
Arif Nazari Himmat
Hussain Dad Yawali
Uzra Rezaee
Ashraf Ali
Mohammad Arif Haleemy
Mohammad Hussain Mirzai
Ghulam Haider
Mohammad Raja
Habiballah
Safar Ali Rezai
Liaqat Ali Mahmudi
Esmatullah Abdul Ahad from Jenny Riley, 15 Jan 2003, marked ‘return to sender, no longer in
Nauru’
Ghulam Hazrat Payadar
Ali Rahimi
Nieunatullah
Hussain Dad Faizi
Abdul Wahid Fatihy
Faired
Mirza Mohammadi
Boomana Haidari
[first name incomplete] Qasimi
Mohammad Zaher Dulat Shahi
L. Hawkins
Jamshed Khan Mohmaud
Abdul Ghani Haidari
Nadir Ali
Abrahime Mirzaee

Previously housed in a ring binder folder labelled 'Criminal Law Conference 2-5 May 2002', this file is comprised of:
Letters to Kate Durham and Julian Burnside from refugees on Nauru, 27 Apr to 26 Aug 2002, 7 letters [some written in Farsi script];
Letters to refugees on Nauru from Kate Durham, 2 letters [undated];
Letter to Kate Durham from Howard Glenn, Australians for Just Refugee Programs, 9 Apr 2002;
List of contacts and notes regarding refugees on Nauru;
Original and photocopied newspaper cuttings regarding refugees on Nauru.

Letters between asylum seekers and Australian correspondents, including some letters in Dari. Letter writers include:
Niamatullah Khalili
Noor Agha Khoshdell
Fiona Logan
Liagat Ali Mahmodi
Abdullah Maqsoodi
Ahmad Menhuman
Mina
Anwar Khan Mohammadi
Esmatullah Mohammadi
Ghulam Abbas Mohammadi
Mohammadullah Mohammadi
Soltany Zand Mohsen
Qudratullah Muhibi
Hassan Ali Muhsini
Mahram Ali Muradbaik
Esa Murtazawi
Mohammad Jan Nabizadh
Haidari Nasir
Ahmad Mehman Navazan
Mohammad Musa Nazari
Mohammad Jawd Nazary