Asylum seekers will be interviewed by a Papua New Guinea judge as he investigates their treatment. Source: AAP
ASYLUM seekers will be interviewed by a Papua New Guinea judge as he investigates their treatment at the Australian run detention centre on Manus island.
Justice David Cannings has announced he will visit Manus to investigate whether asylum seekers are being afforded their rights under PNG's constitution.
The Judge ordered PNG's public solicitor to send lawyers to the detention centre to give legal aid to the asylum seekers before a hearing on Manus Island on March 10, the ABC reports.
The news comes as the Australian Greens prepare to get Labor support on Monday to set up a Senate inquiry into the February 16-18 riot on Manus Island.
Iranian man Reza Berati died and 62 others were injured in the protest. A PNG police investigation has cleared its officers of involvement.
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said the inquiry would have the independence that an immigration department review into the incident lacked.
"Senate inquiry hearings will give the workers who were in the centre on that night the legal protection that they need to tell their stories freely," she told AAP.
The PNG government has repeatedly pledged to introduce legislation making the detention centre exempt from legal challenge.
Over two days of hearings late last week, Justice Cannings ordered the heads of PNG's departments of Attorney General, Migration and Foreign Affairs to appear in court.
He indicated a time frame of one month and said hearings will take place in Madang, Manus Island and Port Moresby.
PNG's National Broadcasting Commission reports the nation's Opposition Leader, Belden Namah, has indicated interest in joining the case.
Mr Namah has a separate action before the courts questioning the legality of the Australian and PNG's government's border agreement to set up the controversial centre.
In June 2013 Justice Cannings dismissed Mr Namah's challenge in its then form, ruling it did not follow proper court procedure when he filed the challenge on March 1 this year.
Justice Cannings previously launched proceedings against a group of police officers accused of using machetes to slash the ankles of 74 men just outside of PNG's international airport in May 2013.
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