Six hundred asylum seekers will be seeking specific orders of the Supreme Court tomorrow (Monday) through an application that was filed by their lawyer last week.
Benham Satah and others, who are applicants at the Manus Regional Processing Centre, will be seeking specific orders from the Supreme Court to send them back to Australia following the ruling last Tuesday (April 26) that their detainment there is illegal and unconstitutional.
Lawyer Ben Lomai told Loop the orders from last Tuesday’s ruling were too general therefore they “will ask the Supreme Court to send them back. They are not PNG’s problem. They are Australia’s problem, so they have to deal with their own problem”.
His clients at the Centre said they are happy with the decision but at the same time, have mixed feelings over what will happen to them.
The issue of compensation on their detention against their will be dealt with later. Those at both Lombrum and Lorengau East total 850, with 400 being issued refugee status.
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