9 months ago
45
Exclusive: Leader of successful class action says government should ‘step in to overturn the convictions’, amid calls for a formal apology
The Indonesian fisher who led the challenge against Australia’s unlawful detention of hundreds of children found on people smuggling boats has urged the government to help quash all remaining convictions linked to the scandal.
The federal government relied on a deeply flawed age assessment technique – interpretations of wrist X-rays – to detain hundreds of Indonesian children found crewing people smuggling boats in 2009 and the early 2010s.
Continue reading...