Australia reaches settlement with suing asylum seekers

‘The Australian government has reached a settlement of around 90 million Australian dollars ($68 million) with more than 1,900 asylum seekers, who had sued Canberra over their treatment at an immigration camp in Papua New Guinea, a minister and lawyers say.
Australia refuses to resettle asylum seekers who arrive by boat and pays the impoverished Pacific island nations of Papua New Guinea and Nauru to keep hundreds of them from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
A trial by 1,905 asylum seekers currently or formerly kept at camp at Manus Island in Papua New Guinea was to begin Wednesday in the Victoria state Supreme Court and was scheduled to take six months. The asylum seekers were seeking damages for alleged physical and psychological injuries they say they suffered as a result of the conditions on Manus Island, as well as for false imprisonment following a Papua New Guinea court ruling that their detention was unconstitutional.’
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