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Youth detainees in Alice Springs detention centre lose 'urgent' bid against transfer to Don Dale

The children are being moved from the Alice Springs Youth Detention Centre, pictured, to Darwin. (ABC News: Samantha Jonscher)

Four young detainees at the Alice Springs Youth Detention Centre have failed in an "urgent" bid to prevent, or delay, their transfer to Darwin due to overcrowding at the Central Australian facility.

The young people, who cannot be identified, filed an injunction with the Northern Territory Supreme Court seeking orders that they be offered "procedural fairness" before any decision to move them from detention in Alice Springs to Darwin was made.

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