Asra and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli had sought protection in Australia before their ‘suspicious’ deaths
Asra and Amaal were found in their beds in their apartment on Canterbury Road, Canterbury on 7 June.
The sisters were both seeking asylum in Australia: each had an active claim for asylum ongoing with the Department of Home Affairs and had engaged with settlement services providers in Sydney. Government sources have confirmed the sisters, who arrived in Australia in 2017, had had their claim for protection initially refused at the departmental level, but were not at the end of the asylum process. Still open to them was a full merits review before the administrative appeals tribunal, appeals to the federal court, and an application for ministerial review.
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