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From 2001 to 2007, and again since 2012, people seeking asylum in Australia have been taken to the Manus Regional Processing Centre in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and held there. On 26 April 2016, the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea found that a constitutional amendment made to permit such detentions violates the PNG constitution. The amendment had permitted "holding a foreign national under arrangements made by Papua New Guinea with another country"; the court said the provision was at odds with the guarantee of "the right to personal liberty" elsewhere in the constitution.
A lawyer representing over 900 "current and former" detainees said he would file on 2 May a request for A$125,000 per person and would be "seeking to enforce the judgment against the Commonwealth of Australia."
coverage:
- BBC News on the ruling
- ABC on the ruling
- ABC Pacific Beat (audio)
- ABC on the lawsuit
- Radio New Zealand
- Neos Kosmos
- stuff.co.nz editorial
- Daily Mail
- AAP via The Daily Telegraph
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 03 2016, @04:07AM
> Reading is fundamental. I used ours as an example, even said that, try reading.
Indeed it is you simpleton, you should take your own advice. I was talking about the part I quoted, specifically the unsupported declaration about a constitution you have never read in a country you could not hope to find on a map without labels.
> The legal concept is pretty much universal
No matter how hard you wish it to be universal, it isn't. Your logic, your examples and your objections are just yankee arrogance based in ignorance of the rest of the world.
What's going on here is that you know jack shit about PNG, but you insist on projecting all your american anxieties on to the country and this story. Surely they have no idea how their own government works, but you are an expert! They are fools and you are wise.