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Australian High Court decides it’s fine to keep 157 migrants on boat
Australia’s High Court ruled yesterday that the government had acted legally when it held 157 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers at sea for almost a month.
The 157 Tamil men, women and children sailed from Pondicherry, India, last year, fleeing violence and discrimination in Sri Lanka.
Their boat was intercepted in June and they remained trapped onboard for weeks before being transferred to the remote Curtin Detention Centre in Western Australia.
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