A sign calling on Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic to support the refugees being held in the Park Hotel, where the star athlete is also believed to be held while he stays in Australia, in Melbourne, Australia, January 7, 2022. REUTERS/Sandra Sanders
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The detention of world number one tennis player Novak Djokovic has drawn attention to the plight of scores of asylum seekers who are housed in the same Australian hotel being used as a makeshift immigration detention facility.
Just 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) from the luxurious city hotels where most of the other players at the Australian Open are staying, the Park Hotel is a grey five-storey building with locked windows in an inner city suburb.
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