• Asylum seekers sit on a fisherman's boat after they were rescued when their boat, headed to Christmas Island in Australia, sunk off Sunda straits, in Indonesia's Banten province on May 24, 2011.  

    The Australian High Court ruled on August 31, 2011, that the Australia-Malaysia Transfer and Resettlement Arrangement is invalid and that any attempt to remove these asylum seekers to Malaysia would be unlawful.

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