Writing from Manus prison: a scathing critique of domination and oppression | Omid Tofighian

Behrouz Boochani spent almost five years typing passages of his book into a mobile phone. The result resists classification

What is more horrific: immigration detention centres constructed as anomalies of a liberal democracy, or systematic state torture imagined as something distinct from fascism?

Behrouz Boochani finished his book, No Friend but the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison, approximately a month after being forcibly removed from the original Manus Island immigration detention centre. He completed it following the intense 23-day siege of the prison and the horrific experiences associated with the standoff, eviction and transfer of refugees.

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