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24 April, Asylum seekers on Nauru lodge a case challenging their detention

 

 

 


          REPUBLIC OF NAURU

Government Information Office

 

MEDIA RELEASE

For Immediate Release

24 April, 2013

 

Asylum seekers on Nauru lodge a case challenging their detention

 

The Australian-based lawyer acting for the ten asylum seekers facing rioting and wilful damage charges has lodged an application ofhabeas corpus- challenging their detention at the Nauru Regional Processing Centre (RPC).

 

Habeas corpusis a constitutional challenge and if successful could have implications for the future of the Australian-run Centre on Nauru.

 

Their trials were to have commenced today (April 24th), but have now been adjourned until June to allow the Supreme Court to deal with thehabeas corpusapplication.

 

The ten defendants were represented in court today by Australian-based barrister Jay Williams.

 

Mr Williams also told the magistrate that he had been refused access to the centre by DIAC in Australia which has prevented him from interviewing his clients, therefore needed more resources to mount a proper defence case.

 

The Magistrate agreed that access refusal appeared to be in contravention of the defendants' constitutional rights and he would seek further information from the Supreme Court on the matter.

 

Resident Magistrate Peter Law extended bail until June 17th for the riot charges and set 10 June for thehabeas corpuscase to be heard during the Supreme Court session before Justice John von Doussa.

 

The Magistrate also upheld his non-publication order that the identities of all ten defendants be suppressed by both name, electronic imaging or any other means that could lead to their identification outside the precincts of the court.

 

Meanwhile, all four hundred plus asylum seekers on Nauru have moved into permanent accommodation with air conditioning and a renovated recreational room.

 

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