As a 16-year-old facing an Australian court, Nasrudin Yahya had ‘no idea’ he was going to jail because his interpreter did not speak his language
Nasrudin Yahya, now 31, was prosecuted as an adult in Australia, despite telling authorities he was only 16 years old. Photograph: Afriadi Hikmal/The Guardian
Since the settlement agreement, lawyers from Ken Cush and Associates have been travelling through Indonesia, searching for others wrongly detained due to the flawed X-ray analysis.Kevin lives in Kupang, the largest city on the island of Timor, and speaks a local Kupang dialect. He does not speak English.But he says he was given no interpreter for two court appearances in which he appeared remotely.
On rare occasions, when business was good, the pair would splurge and pay for a roof over their head for a night. He was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, the mandatory minimum jail sentence for people smuggling. The WA courts told Guardian Australia they were unable to find Kevin’s file. During the civil proceedings, commonwealth records were used to estimate that more than 230 children as young as 12 were incarcerated with adults in maximum security prisons.
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