Australia Asylum Seekers Protest Settlement Plan

A rights group says asylum-seekers at a detention center in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are protesting a plan by Australia to permanently settle them on the Southeast Asian island. The Refugee Action Coalition said Sunday that detainees at the Manus Island detention center had barricaded themselves inside the facility and are preventing the delivery of food, on concerns that if they are settled in PNG, they would be attacked by locals and not be able to find employment. Australian...

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