Fed: Asylum seekers on Lombok complain of long limbo

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: October 28, 2005 | Copyright information


AAP General News (Australia)

10-28-2005

Fed: Asylum seekers on Lombok complain of long limbo

By Heather Gallagher

MELBOURNE, Oct 28 AAP - More than 50 asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam
will remain indefinitely in Indonesia at the Australian government's expense.

The asylum seekers who were turned away at the Ashmore Reef by the Australian Navy
in October 2001, have been given temporary protection by the United ...

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