SYDNEY: Asylum-seekers held on an Australian customs vessel at sea for weeks were given lifeboats and told to make their own way back to India, a lawyer for the group said.
The boatload of 157, whom lawyer Hugh de Kretser said yesterday were mostly Christian Tamils fleeing persecution in Sri Lanka, set sail from India hoping to get to Australia.
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