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Indonesian boys, Australian jails

Six Indonesians sent to adult jails in Australia when they were teenagers have had their names cleared after a 'substantial miscarriage of justice'

  • Nasrudin Yahya under a pier with a boat in the background

    After serving years as children in Australian adult prisons, Indonesians reveal new anguish

  • Kevin at his home in Indonesia.

    Indonesian boys jailed by Australia claim no translation provided in court

  • prison fence

    Indonesian children falsely jailed as adults by Australia have $27.5m compensation upheld

    Federal court judge deems amount awarded to children imprisoned for people smuggling offences as ‘fair and reasonable’
  • Indonesians Maikel Husa, Usman Ari, Vandi, Rudi Usman, Hamzah Gogo and Muhammad Maleng were all detained as children, then spent an average of 864 days in Australian jails

    Up to 220 Indonesians could be compensated after children wrongly jailed in Australia as people smugglers

    The children were wrongly deemed to be adults by federal police and Australian courts, who were relying on a wildly inaccurate technique
  • An image of Anto, a 15-year-old, when he was arrested on board a people smuggling boat in 2009. Anto was later charged and jailed as an adult on the basis of flawed wrist x-ray evidence.

    Indonesian boys wrongly imprisoned by Australia ask attorney general for new appeal

    Exclusive: Lawyers for two Indonesian children wrongly jailed for people smuggling ask Mark Dreyfus to refer case for appeal, calling Christian Porter’s ruling on the case a ‘mockery of justice’
  • Child immigrant in the justice system illustration

    Watchdog won’t investigate AFP reliance on flawed technique to prosecute Indonesian boys

    Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity says complaint about federal police not about corruption so does not fall within its remit
  • Child immigrant in the justice system illustration

    Expert warned against wrist X-rays used by AFP to prosecute children as adult people smugglers

    Radiologist James Christie’s court evidence said technique had no scientific validity and was never intended to assess age
  • Anto was 15 when he was arrested on board a people smuggling boat in 2009

    ‘They were tiny’: the Indonesians still fighting their conviction as adults in Australia

    Anto and Samsul Bahar were 15 when they were jailed in a maximum security facility in Western Australia
  • Illustration of child behind bars with markings counting on the wall

    The Indonesian children Australia wrongly imprisoned in adult jails

  • Illustration of a boy in jail

    Christian Porter denied justice plea from Indonesians jailed in Australia when they were children

  • Illustration of a boy standing behind bars

    ‘I want to know why he died’: family seeks justice over Australia’s jailing of Indonesian child

    Erwin Prayoga was 14 when he was wrongly jailed as an adult in Western Australia. Shortly after he was deported to Indonesia, he died in agony
  • Composite of (L-R) Maikel Husa, Usman Ari, Vandi, Rudi Usmand, Hamzah Gogo and Muhammad Maleng

    ‘Systemic failures at every step’: the Indonesian children Australia sent to adult jails for years

    Six children jailed as adults for acting as crew on people-smuggling boats have had their convictions quashed. But Australian authorities had been told before they were jailed of doubts about the wrist X-ray technique used to prove they were over 18
  • Illustration of a gavel swinging down over a crouched child

    Indonesian children jailed in Australia as adult people smugglers win court battle to clear their names

    Six teens lured to crew boats from their impoverished villages repeatedly told officials they were children – 12 years on, a court has finally believed them
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