Eleventh-hour high court bid to stop Australia’s secretive deal to resettle NZYQ cohort in Nauru

Proceedings filed Friday for man scheduled to be deported Monday as Human Rights Law Centre makes case for dangerous precedent'

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Australia's secretive deal to deport people among the NZYQ cohort to Nauru has been challenged in the high court in a move that could block the first removal from the country.

Legal proceedings filed Friday for a man scheduled to be deported to Nauru on Monday argued that the decision to cancel the man's protection visa was unlawful and that he should be allowed to stay in Australia while a review of his visa continued.

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