Australia's High Court has blocked a government deal to swap up to 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia in return for accepting 4,000 registered refugees from the country over four years.<br /><br />The court ruled that asylum seekers who arrive in Australian waters cannot be sent to any other country without certain legally binding guarantees about how they would be treated.<br /><br />Malaysia is not a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention, nor do its domestic laws explicitly enshrine the rights of asylum seekers.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Andrew Thomas reports from Sydney.
