Up to 220 Indonesians could be compensated after children wrongly jailed in Australia as people smugglers
by Christopher Knaus from World news | The Guardian on (#6H2ZE)
The children were wrongly deemed to be adults by federal police and Australian courts, who were relying on a wildly inaccurate technique
Up to 220 Indonesians could receive compensation after they were wrongfully prosecuted and detained as adult people smugglers in Australia despite being children at the time.
Earlier this year, the federal government agreed to settle a significant class action brought by a group of Indonesian children who were falsely prosecuted as adult people smugglers between 2010 and 2012.
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