SYDNEY: More than 750 asylum-seekers held in a Papua New Guinea detention camp launched a legal action to be moved to Australia after a court in the Pacific nation found the centre unconstitutional.
Australian lawyers acting for the 757 men – who are held on Manus Island as part of Canberra’s tough policy of sending those who try to reach Australia by boat to camps in PNG and Nauru – sought an “urgent injunction” in the High Court.
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