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#13 A Stranger in Geneva

Podcast |: The Messenger
Publisher |: The Wheeler Centre
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Australia,; Immigration,; News & Politics,; Personal Journals,; Society & Culture,; Technology
Categories Via RSS |: News & Politics,; Personal Journals,; Society & Culture,; Technology
Publication Date |: Dec 16, 2019
Episode Duration |: 00:31:09

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iTunes Summary

Aziz in the snow – wearing a white shirt, black gloves and sunglasses – about to throw a snowball

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Aziz in the snow, in Switzerland — Photo: Michael Green

'Hard to imagine. Start your life again. Have your own house, your own family.'

– Abdul Aziz Muhamat

Incredibly, Aziz is in Switzerland. And he’s just won a major international award for human rights defenders.

He’s swamped with attention and adoration, briefings and business cards. But he is only allowed to be in Geneva for three short weeks. Then he has to return to Manus Island – back to the dangerous situation he’s being celebrated for campaigning against.

In this episode, we follow Aziz as he negotiates meetings with diplomats and speeches to the UN. He struggles with an unexpected, oppressive dilemma – should he board a plane back to his brothers on Manus, or seek yet another uncertain path to safety and freedom?

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A transcript of this episode is available centre-heracles.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/processed/75/7ccf8a33e74867be1e7ca3d1b26b8e/757ccf8a33e74867be1e7ca3d1b26b8e_original.pdf">here (PDF format).

In this episode

Abdul Aziz Muhamat
Michael Green
Peggy Hicks
Michael Khambatta

Our theme music was composed by Raya Slavin. Music used in this episode was produced by Hour House (Mark Leacy and Sam Kenna), except for 'I am the Changer', by Cotton Jones.

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The Messenger is a co-production of Behind the Wire and the Wheeler Centre. This episode was originally commissioned and produced for the ABC Radio National programme, Earshot. It was produced by Michael Green. The supervising producer was Lyn Gallacher. The sound engineer was Melissa May.

Narration by Michael Green. Additional editing and mixing by Jon Tjhia.

Thank you

André Dao, Jon Tjhia, Hannah Reich, Bec Fary and Sophie Black. Also Camilla Chapman, Cecilia Cannon and Sean Cole, and Behind the Wire's many participants and volunteers.

In this episode – The Messenger's last – we follow Aziz through Geneva, Switzerland, as he negotiates meetings with diplomats and speeches to the UN. He struggles with an unexpected, oppressive dilemma – should he board a plane back to his brothers on Manus, or seek yet another uncertain path to safety and freedom?

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