• Participants hold a candlelight vigil for two refugees, a Somali woman and an Iranian, man who set themselves on fire on the remote Pacific island of Nauru, in Sydney on May 4. More than 750 asylum-seekers held in a Papua New Guinea detention camp launched legal action on May 4 to be moved to Australia after a court in the Pacific nation found the center unconstitutional. | AFP-JIJI
    Participants hold a candlelight vigil for two refugees, a Somali woman and an Iranian, man who set themselves on fire on the remote Pacific island of Nauru, in Sydney on May 4. More than 750 asylum-seekers held in a Papua New Guinea detention camp launched legal action on May 4 to be moved to Australia after a court in the Pacific nation found the center unconstitutional. | AFP-JIJI

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SYDNEY – A pregnant woman who says she was raped at an Australia detention center for asylum seekers on the tiny South Pacific island of Nauru cannot be forced to have an abortion in Papua New Guinea because it is unsafe and illegal, a court has ruled.

Under Australia’s hard-line immigration policy, asylum seekers intercepted at sea trying to reach Australia are sent for processing to camps on Nauru and on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and are told they will never be settled in Australia.

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