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From Behind the Wire and the Wheeler Centre, The Messenger brings you into the Australian immigration detention centre on Manus Island – and reveals, in intimate detail, one man's experience of what it's really like to flee tragedy and seek asylum by boat.
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#13 A Stranger in Geneva
Aziz in the snow, in Switzerland — Photo: Michael Green
'Hard to imagine. Start your life again. Have your own house, your own family.'
In...
#12 Flight from Manus
Aziz, in a hotel room facing onto Genève-Cornavin railway station — Photo: Michael Green
'I just feel like I left my soul back there, yo...
#11 We Lived as a Nation
The men demonstrate their improvised well — Photo: Michael Green
‘Twenty four days we lived as a nation … The only way I can describe [i...
What I Can See Right Now
It's raining on Michael's last afternoon on Manus Island, and Aziz drops by to catch up. They discuss where things are at with Aziz and the other men,...
I'm Not Really Settled Right Now
‘I’m safe and I’m alive.’
An eventful week has passed. After PNG immigration officials and police entered the decommissioned detention centre, d...
We Are Looking After Each Other
Rain comes. In his voice messages, Aziz sounds unwell – but speaks at length about how, in spite of their living conditions, the men finally feel they...
It's Been 17 Days
Seventeen days into the stand-off with authorities, Aziz tells Michael about how men in the detention centre are dealing with the lack of water after...
We Are Just Living on a Daily Basis
Aziz reports that Papua New Guinean immigration officials have been entering the detention centre to destroy tanks and wells. Meanwhile, the men remai...
Everything That We Have Built
Hundreds of men remain in the decommissioned detention centre – refusing to be relocated to camps which many (including the UN's refugee agency) have...
There is a Reason
After Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court rejects an appeal to restore power, water and food to the decommissioned detention centre, Aziz says the men ne...
We Are Hoping to Find a Way to Communicate
As the detainees' isolation intensifies, Aziz tells Michael about the burden of his responsibilities – and his hope of some negotiation to end the sta...
We Wait for the Day to Make a Plan for Us
Three days after the official closure of the detention centre, several hundred detainees remain barricaded inside the gates without water, power or fo...
We Are Just Ready
Mere hours from Australia's deadline to close Manus Island's immigration detention centre, tensions are running high amongst detainees. Why does Aziz...
We Never Had Any Storm Like This
The security guards and other staff are leaving the detention centre. Aziz explains how the detainees are preparing for life without power.
Dama...
Position is Clear
Abdul Aziz Muhamat — Photo: Michael Green
As the days count down to the end of October – when Australia has promised to close the detention cent...
Hello Hello
With just ten days left before Australia closes the detention centre on Manus Island, Aziz leaves a few short voice messages, explaining how he is fee...
#10 It Runs In My Blood
Aziz — Photo: Michael Green
'This place has become part of me. It runs in my blood.'
After seven long months in Port Moresby recovering fr...
#9 Freedom Is Not Free
Abdul Aziz Muhamat and Michael Green on Manus Island — (Photo: Behrouz Boochani)
'Freedom is not free. You have to pay for it. And we pay; now w...
#8 Kind of a Dream
Behrouz and Aziz at Hauwei Island — (Photo: Michael Green)
'I’m excited because … for almost three years I haven’t left the centre, and I was ju...
#7 A Small Village
‘I have got energy, so … why can’t I just keep in touch with the outside world?’
Photo: Michael Green
Even though Aziz is in detention, fa...
#6 A New Plan
‘I'm just pretending … as if I'm preparing for a space journey, and the space journey, it takes many years.’
After months of interviews, Aziz fi...
#5 A Safer Place
Stopping the boats. It's one of the most fraught topics in Australian politics, and most of the time it comes out in two soundbites: saving lives at s...
#4 Today I'm Really Smiling
A major ruling by the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court offers hope for Aziz – but, amidst the promise, the men receive devastating news from Nauru. Mean...
#3 I Have Got Some People Waiting For Me
Aziz’s life has been a story of chance – and choice. As Michael pieces together Aziz’s journey from Sudan to Manus, he realises Aziz has been searchin...
#2 I Need to Format My Memory
As the world reacts to the Trump administration’s new US border policies, Aziz’s situation is as uncertain as ever, with no end in sight. Life on Manu...
#1 Aziz, Not a Boat Number
As a journalist, Michael Green had spoken to a lot of people who’ve been held in detention centres. Some were there for a few weeks, and others for as...
#0 Welcome
Welcome to The Messenger.
The series begins from Monday 23 January 2017 – but you can subscribe to the feed now in iTunes or your favourite pod...