SYDNEY: Australian police Monday defended alerting Indonesia to a Bali drug-smuggling ring despite knowing offenders could face the death penalty, but said they regretted that two of them were executed.
Nine Australians were arrested in the resort island of Bali in 2005 over their involvement with a syndicate bringing drugs to Sydney, with Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 34, killed by a firing squad last week despite pleas for mercy from Canberra.
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