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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: 2) by MostCynical on Tuesday May 03 2016, @10:27PM
Very grey area - under the UN trety on refugees, Australia should* have allowed them to come to Australia for processing.
Instead' Australia re-wrote some laws to 'excise' parts of out territory from full Australian law.
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