The protest came a day after Rowan County clerk Kim Davis asked the US supreme court to grant her "asylum for her conscience".
On Tuesday the Northern Territory supreme court also heard the asylum seeker family – which has been detained in Darwin detention centres since late 2014 – will be taken out of detention and placed in the community in Brisbane.
The supreme court has confirmed today that asylum seekers cannot be required to lie about their political beliefs in order to avoid persecution in their country of nationality.
The Australian-run Manus Island immigration detention centre is scheduled to close on 31 October, after a 2016 ruling by the Papua New Guinea supreme court that the detention of asylum seekers was illegal and unconstitutional.
But last month the PNG supreme court ruled the detention of asylum seekers and refugees to be illegal, and ordered the PNG and Australian governments to "forthwith" take all steps necessary steps to stop the practice.
In April 2016 Papua New Guinea's supreme court ruled Australia's detention of asylum seekers on Manus Island to be illegal and ordered the PNG and Australian governments to immediately take steps to end the detention of asylum seekers in PNG.
Advocates described the current mood on Nauru and Manus Island as an emergency situation, particularly in light of Tuesday's PNG supreme court decision ruling the detention of asylum seekers illegal.
As well as international criticism from UN human rights bodies, earlier this year the supreme court of Papua New Guinea found the detention of asylum seekers an unconstitutional violation of the right to liberty.
The Australian Labor party's immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, said "the PNG supreme court's ruling that the detention of asylum seekers at the Manus Island facility is illegal is of significant concern to Labor".
President Lula decided not to extradite Battisti on his last day in office, in December 2010, and in 2013, Brazil's supreme court upheld Silva's decision to grant asylum to Battisti.
A US citizen arrested in North Korea for allegedly tearing up his visa and seeking asylum will go before the North's supreme court this weekend in a trial almost certain to end quickly with a guilty verdict.
