Frustration is building amongst asylum seekers still held at the Regional Processing Centre in Lombrum, Manus, following the Supreme Court's ruling last month.
They want to be released from detention and either be sent to Australia or another country.
And with the frustration, they have resorted to staging a peaceful protest within their respective compounds.
Kurdish Iranian asylum seeker Benham Satah informed Loop PNG last night that those in his compound started the peaceful protest by putting up banners.
"Actually everyone is frustrated. We want to be released and go to Australia. If Australia don't want us, we want to go to another country.
"Everyone says Supreme Court announced this centre is illegal. We didn't come to live in PNG," Satah said.
He said despite their lawyer seeking compensation in the Australian Supreme Court for their illegal detention, "the important thing is to be free from all these sufferings".
"I think everyone wants to be free after 34 months; you can't find anyone who says I like to be in detention.
"It's a peaceful protest. We started it with putting banners outside. Then maybe we gather as group and ask to be free," Satah added.
This week ABC reported Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton told Radio National, PNG must resettle men found to be refugees, citing the memorandum of understanding entered into by the former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd with the PNG Government "and our expectation is that that MoU will be honoured".
Meanwhile, an enforcement claim for compensation has been filed at the PNG Supreme Court for breaches of constitutional rights by asylum seekers who were processed at the centre.
Human rights lawyer Ben Lomai, who represents 600 applicants in Manus, said the application will be moved in court on Monday (May 16).
They filed for compensation after the high court found that their detainment in PNG was unconstitutional and illegal.
He said currently there are 850 asylum seekers in Manus with 400 already given refugee status.
Lomai said the Commonwealth is responsible for all the costs associated with offshore processing.
“We are claiming six different breaches such as rights to personal liberty, denial of access to lawyers, inhumane treatments, etc.
"One asylum seeker may walk away with K1.8 mill to K2 mill. And if you times that by say, 900-plus asylum seekers, we are anticipating $A1billion,” he added.
He explained that they will be going by the based figure that was ordered by the Courts in previous cases for breaches of constitutional rights, with the starting point of K300 per day.
“That’s K200 for compensation and K100 for exemplary damages, and assuming an asylum seeker was detained for say 1,000 days, he would get K300,000 for one breach.”
Meanwhile, Australian barrister Jay Williams has also filed an application in the Supreme Court of Australia seeking an injunctive order for the 850 detainees in Manus to return to Australia.
The state and PNG immigration are parties in the proceeding in Australia.
Lomai said the application in the Australian High Court is to injunct the PNG Government and the Commonwealth of Australia from sending the asylum seekers to Nauru but to only return them to Australia.
This application will be heard on May 23, 9:30am at the Supreme Court of Australia.
