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Faysal Ishak Ahmed 13b - Killing Faysal Ishak Ahmed

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Killing Faysal Ishak Ahmed

Artwork by Eaten Fish. Eaten fish weeps and points to a flower at the bottom of a flight of stairs, text reads "He fell down these stairs I saw him could not breath".

[imagecaption] ‘Happy Bloody Christmas: The True Story of Faysal’, The Guardian, 2016. Artist: Eaten Fish. [/imagecaption]

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‘Now he’s free, he’s got his freedom, he’s not going to suffer anymore, he’s not gonna be tortured anymore…What I see now, all of us are in a queue, waiting for our turn to come…Those four guys they got their turn…now we’re waiting.’

Abdul Aziz (in The Messenger ‘Freedom is not free‘)


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This research was primarily supported under the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme from 2016-2020.

Partial funding was received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Partnership Development Grants scheme in 2016-2017.

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