People-smuggling charges dropped

By Michael Gordon
Updated September 4 2012 - 7:08am, first published 7:05am

AFTER two years in detention, most of it in maximum security prison, it took barely 10 seconds yesterday for Jeky Payara to be told he wasn’t facing any charges after all, and could return to his village in the remote Maluku Islands of Indonesia.

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