SYDNEY: Australia’s detention of asylum-seekers on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island is unconstitutional and illegal, a court ruled, prompting some refugee advocates to call for the camp to be shut down.
Canberra has come under international criticism for sending asylum-seekers who attempt to enter the country by boat to remote processing centres on Manus or the tiny Pacific island of Nauru but said the finding would not change its policies.
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