Vol.64/No.10      March 13, 2000 
 
 
Protest condemns sentencing  
laws in Australia  
 

Some 300 people protested at the magistrates court in Darwin, Australia, February 11 after a 15-year-old Aborigine hung himself in a Darwin detention center. He had been jailed for minor theft and property offenses under the Northern Territory's mandatory sentencing law. Aborigines have called for abolishing these laws, which have been used mainly to lock up young Blacks.

 
 
 
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