![]() ![]() The arrival of one of the world's wealthiest athletes led to incongruous scenes outside the hotel, with members of the Serbian expatriate community draped in the national flag and playing traditional music joining refugee activists in protests. Spray painted in bright yellow on the facade were the words "FREE THEM ALL". Just 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) from the luxurious city hotels where most of the other players at the Australian Open are staying, the Park Hotel is a grey five-storey building with locked windows in an inner city suburb.Įight police guarded the entrance on Friday. ![]() MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The detention of world number one tennis player Novak Djokovic has drawn attention to the plight of scores of asylum seekers who are housed in the same Australian hotel being used as a makeshift immigration detention facility. ![]()
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