Hello supporters. In recent weeks, the team at Human Rights for All have had some amazing wins, helping to free six detainees from Australian immigration detention. You definitely helped make that happen. Today, I'm asking you to help once more.

'Hector' is is an asylum seeker in immigration detention. He’s 'weeks from death'. Will you sign the petition to demand he receives medical care and be released?

Hector has been in immigration detention since 2013 and has lost at least 25kg in the past year, dropping from a weight of 70kg.

I have been told that Hector has weeks, not months, to live … he is starving to death.

The dangerous weight loss Hector is experiencing is just one of the symptoms of his illness, but the government seem determined to categorise it as a protest. This is manifestly dangerous and the UN has now asked the Australian government to give my client the urgent medical care he needs to save his life, and to consider release.

Hector is currently psychosocially disabled. To put it plainly, he is starving to death. He requires urgent medical assessment. I have pleaded for him to be listened to while he still had capacity. I am now doing the pleading on his behalf but we have both largely been ignored.

I feel Hector is being let down by the Australian Government, including those from the medical profession involved in this man's "care" and regulatory bodies. Not a single entity with real power has stepped forward to assist him.

Please, sign and share his petition. Hector cannot be left to die in this way. There is still time, but that time is running out.

Alison Battisson
Director Principal, Human Rights For All