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Advocates for human rights and Australians stranded overseas have welcomed a request from the United Nations for the federal government to "facilitate and ensure" the prompt return of two of its citizens.
The government must now also respond to claims brought on the pair's behalf by human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC that Australia has breached international law by preventing them from returning home for over a year due to arbitrary caps on travel, stranded citizen advocacy group Free and Open Australia advocacy group says.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) has been looking into complaints filed by the two Australians - Jason George and Alex, whose surname has been withheld. The pair are among the tens of thousands of Australians still stranded overseas.