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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Kristina Kukolja

Australia inquiry raises hopes for six jailed over alleged Sydney bomb plot

The inquiry began this month and will continue in March [Mark Baker/Photo]

Melbourne, Australia – More than four decades after they were convicted in one of Australia’s longest-running criminal trials, the evidence used to jail six former Yugoslav migrants is being re-examined to determine if they were victims of a miscarriage of justice.

A rare judicial inquiry in the state of New South Wales (NSW) began investigating this month the convictions of six Croatian-Australian men found guilty in 1981 of plotting to bomb sites across Sydney, Australia’s biggest city.

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