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Indonesians wrongly deemed adult people smugglers by Australian police finally cleared to appeal convictions

globalFebruary 5, 2026
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Indonesians wrongly deemed adult people smugglers by Australian police finally cleared to appeal convictions
Errors led to boys aged as young as 13 going to adult maximum-security jails in WA. Now the attorney general has intervened in two cases
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Errors led to boys aged as young as 13 going to adult maximum-security jails in WA. Now the attorney general has intervened in two cases

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The federal attorney general has used her mercy powers to pave the way for two Indonesian children to overturn a shocking miscarriage of justice that caused their wrongful imprisonment as adult people smugglers.

The boys, both aged 15, were among hundreds of Indonesian children who were found on asylum seeker boats between 2010 and 2012 and wrongly deemed adult people smugglers by Australian police.

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Source: Guardian - World News

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