Whispers Behind the Wire

In a detention centre shadowed by corruption and silence, Seka shines a light on the abuses buried behind locked gates…Seka Torlak, an investigative journalist, is at an Australian immigration detention centre in 2001, to write a feel-good piece about a model asylum seeker. Instead, she uncovers the story of Afsana — a young Hazara detainee whose quiet defiance made her a thorn in the side of the ...