Novak Djokovic: refugees hope tennis star’s hotel detention will cast light on their ‘torture’

We came for safety, not to play tennis'. Refugees and asylum seekers speak out against their harsh treatment

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Novak Djokovic's wrangling with authorities over entering Australia has inadvertently highlighted a different plight: those of the refugees and asylum seekers stuck for months, and years, at the Park Hotel.

The infamous detention hotel in Carlton, Melbourne, where the tennis star is likely to spend the weekend as he awaits a court hearing over his visa cancellation has been described by detainees as a torture cell".

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