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A demonstration in Jakarta in December against modern slavery at sea
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When Arif, a 19-year-old Indonesian fisherman, died quietly in his bunk on a Taiwanese fishing boat in June 2019 – blood staining his mouth – a Fijian coroner ruled that he had suffered a pulmonary oedema.
But his fellow crewmen tell a different story to the official narrative and allege his sudden passing was likely linked to the brutal beatings to the head and neck that were regularly meted out to the rookie crew member from his superiors.
“Every single day [they] bullied him, they punched and hit him on his head. it was a terrible sight and very stressful for all the crew,” Jack, a Filipino crew member, claimed in an interview with the
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