Limited freedom: Asylum-seekers looking through a fence at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea. — Reuters
SYDNEY: Asylum-seekers held at an Australian camp in Papua New Guinea can now freely come and go from the centre, their lawyer and media said, following a Supreme Court ruling that their detention was unconstitutional.
Australia’s policy of sending asylum-seekers who try to enter the country by boat to offshore camps was thrown into disarray last month when PNG’s highest court ruled against the detention of 850 men on Manus Island.
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