Over 120 Indonesians who were wrongly jailed as adults in Australia, despite being children at the time, have settled a major class action lawsuit. The Australian government has agreed to pay over A$27 million to these victims, who were detained and in some cases prosecuted as people smugglers.
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Some of these individuals were as young as 12 at the time of their detention. They were lured onto people-smuggling boats with promises of well-paid work, unaware of their destination or their role in transporting asylum seekers. This settlement is the latest in a series of cases related to Australia’s asylum-seeker policies.
