Accounts from Indonesian crew on illegal net functioning reveal’ inhumane’ conditions including bodies dumped at sea

When Sepri and Ari boarded a Chinese tuna fishing bowl in February 2019, the 24 -year-old best friends were stimulated at the prospect of working together and having adventures at sea. Lured by the promise of high-pitched compensations after being jobless back in their village in Indonesia, they told their families they would bring home “a lot of money” and conclude them proud.

Neither of them witnessed the families of such again. Both adults died at sea after weeks of affliction: making 18 -hour dates without suitable food or water and under the threat of violence, according to survivors who threw harrowing accounts of the deaths to the Guardian- including their bodies being thrown overboard.

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