Transit Centre: Centre and Power Supply

transit centre: Despite threats that water and power supply to the camp would be cut by 5 p.m. local time, asylum-seekers told Reuters after the deadline that half the camp still had power at 10.30 p.m., along with access to water, according to CBC. The Manus centre has been a key plank of Australia's controversial Sovereign Borders immigration policy. Detainees are defying attempts by Australia and PNG to close the controversial Manus Island centre, saying they fear violent reprisals from the local community if they move to a transit centre. The country refuses to allow asylum seekers arriving by boat to reach its shores, detaining them in camps in PNG and Nauru in the South Pacific. Refugee Action Coalition via Associated Press Lawyers for some of the 600 men have filed a last-minute lawsuit in PNG, seeking an injunction to prevent the camp's closure and the relocation of the men to a third country. Refugees and asylum seekers protest at the Manus Island immigration detention centre in Papua New Guinea. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.