Four Nepalese refugees who'd been detained on a ramshackle boat in Micronesia for months have been moved to a house as they wait to be resettled.
Their year on a rat infested leaking boat tied to the Pohnpei wharf prompted locals to raise the alarm and a local attorney filed legal action in the Supreme Court of the Federated States of Micronesia to get them released.
The men were the only ones determined to be refugees among a group of asylum seekers from Nepal and India who arrived in FSM two and a half years ago.
They're still not allowed to move about freely but the managing editor of Kaselehlie Press, Bill Jaynes, told Sally Round they're faring quite well.
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