Hearing date given for Transferees application

​ A hearing date has been given for an application that was filed by Kurdish-Iranian Journalist, Behrouz Boochani, and others at the former Regional Processing centre in Manus early this week.

The application in the Supreme Court which seeks prevention orders against their transfer to other facilities, will be heard next week Monday.

The application for Enforcement of Constitutional rights has been fixed before Chief Justice, Sir Salamo Injia, at 11am on Monday, November 6.
 

It has been three days since Australian authorities walked out of the former detention center, leaving the transferees without food, electricity and running water.

All these services were disconnected on Oct 31. They are however available at the other transits centers on the island.

The transferees today continued their peaceful protest into day 95, but there has been reports of one inflicting wounds on himself and some walking over 20km from the East Lorengau transit center back to the Lombrum Naval base.

Boochani and others are seeking orders to prevent their transfer to the East Lorengau Transit centre or other similar facilities, either in Manus or PNG, against their will.

They also seek orders in the application for the restoration of food, water and electricity to the Lombrum detention centre, where the applicants are currently residing.

Author: 
Sally Pokiton
Notifications: 
Breaking News