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| Subject: OZschwitz slave pen: End the shame of locking up Indonesian children Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:48 pm | |
| If an intellectually-disabled Australian boy was detained in an Indonesian prison without charge for two years before being quietly released and deported, Australians would be fuming. They'd be as upset as they are over the boy in a Bali prison on drugs possession charges.
Yet this happened recently to an Indonesian boy who spent two years inside Sydney's Silverwater prison on people smuggling charges. The 15-year-old has been sent back to Pantar island in Timor. The Australian government hoped you wouldn't notice that it is targeting children and not the organisers of people smuggling syndicates.
This orphan was not the first Indonesian child detained in an Australian adult prison, and he won't be the last. Lawyers say there are between 40 and 50 Indonesian minors in custody in Australia, some without charge, accused of people smuggling.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/blogs/gengreens/end-the-shame-of-locking-up-indonesian-children-20111114-1nfqb.html#ixzz1dkKkq45D
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