When a group of young Australian drug smugglers known as the Bali Nine were sentenced in February, two received the death penalty. Most of the others appealed against their life prison sentences, hoping for more lenient ones. Instead, the Indonesian Supreme Court recently replaced four of those sentences with death, bringing to six the number of Australians on death row in Indonesia. The decision has strained a relationship between the Pacific neighbours that has been difficult at the best of times. It has also renewed charges in the region against Australia of holding double standards.
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