The Catholic Professionals Society of Papua New Guinea is calling on the Government to close down the Manus regional asylum processing centre.
President Paul Harricknen said in a statement Australia had showed a lack of that respect for PNG’s sovereignty and “blindfolded it with its money diplomacy in setting up the refugee detention processing centre at Manus”. He said the centre did not make any humanitarian, legal and financial sense to the asylum seekers and the people of PNG. He said the recent alleged rape of a local at the centre by three Australian expatriates and their departure without being charged under PNG law showed “Australia’s arrogance and lack of respect for PNG’s sovereignty”. “The detention exercise has been unconstitutional and unlawful from the beginning because asylum seekers were brought into PNG without their consent,” he said. “Detention of persons without lawful excuse in remote islands over indefinite lengths of time and without due process under independent and impartial judicial system are both unlawful, inhumane and against the dignity of the person.” He said Australia had arrogantly breached international human rights and migration laws and the constitutions of host nations by pushing its concept of “offshore processing centres” on smaller Pacific nations. The National/ PNGFacts
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