Refugees detained in Darwin hotel for 12 months, despite requesting return to Nauru | ABC News

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A group of 15 medevac refugees have been detained in a Darwin hotel for almost 12 months, with their lawyers calling their detention “illegal” and “political imprisonment”.

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