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  • 9 months ago
The final five members of the Bali Nine drug smuggling group have returned to Australia after nearly two decades in Indonesian prisons. This video includes ACM-produced voiceover powered by AI.
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00:00Where's Matthew?
00:03The final five members of the Bali Nine drug smuggling group have returned to Australia
00:07after nearly two decades in Indonesian prisons.
00:11Scott Rush, Matthew Norman, Siyi Chen, Martin Stephens and Michael Chugach were released
00:17under a humanitarian deal with Indonesia.
00:20These Australians served more than 19 years in prison in Indonesia.
00:25It was time for them to come home.
00:28Their life sentences were effectively commuted to 20 years and they will now undertake rehabilitation
00:33in Australia with a ban on returning to Indonesia.
00:37The Bali Nine were arrested in 2005 for attempting to smuggle 8.3 kilograms of heroin.
00:43The five men committed serious offences.
00:47Australia shares Indonesia's concern about the serious problem illicit drugs represents.
00:53The government will continue to cooperate with Indonesia to counter narcotics trafficking
00:58and transnational crime.
01:00The ringleaders, Miran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, were executed by firing squad in 2015
01:07while member Tanduk Than Nguyen passed away from cancer in 2018.
01:10Renee Lawrence, the group's only female member, was released in 2018 after her sentence was
01:16commuted.
01:23For more UN videos visit www.un.org

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