MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The decision followed an action filed by a Bangladeshi woman, who entered Australia in 2013 and was deported to an immigration camp on the Pacific island nation of Nauru the following year. She commenced proceedings on the legitimacy of Australia's offshore detention policy.
In the statement, the High Court of Australia answered in affirmative on the question whether the detention of the plaintiff at the camp on Nauru was authorized by a valid law of the Commonwealth.
The statement added that the policy was also within the framework of the country's migration legislation.
Refugees, including young children who come to Australia seeking asylum, are settled in offshore detention camps at the nearby island of Manus in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, which had been criticized by rights groups for inhumane living conditions.
