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Remaining Bali Nine prisoners sent home early with little backlash in Indonesia

By ABC NEWS (Australia)

Published : Dec. 16, 2024 - 07:11

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After nearly two decades behind bars, the five remaining members of the so-called bali nine have been freed and flown back to Australia. Scott Rush, Matthew Norman, Siyi Chen, martin Stephens, and Michael Czugaj were serving life sentences in Indonesia for their roles in a drug smuggling plot in Bali in 2005. But after years of advocacy from the Australian government. A breakthrough was announced this afternoon that the group had been flown back to Australia.