- Australian guy's mother dies
- goes on overseas trip to try to deal with it
- gets roofied in Cambodia and accidentally cracks ATM glass
- arrested at the airport for... damaging ATM
- sent to hell on earth Cambodian prison
- gang raped in prison
- Australian embassy is notified but does nothing
- Australian foreign minister Penny Wong does nothing
- multiple meetings with Australian embassy personnel who also do nothing
- except charge the guy for the privilege of sending him money to bribe the prison and judge
- also his lawyer used part of the money to party with friends in Thailand
Imagine, if you will, that Malaysian-born Minister of Foreign Affairs Penny Wong didn't care to save a white Australian guy stranded in southeast Asia.
This would never have happened in the old times. A guy getting abused like this would have been a stain on the dignity of all Australians.
What happened to him is literally almost the same shit that happened to the main character in the movie Midnight Express from 1978. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077928/ It's based on a true story too. This is a movie everyone should watch. It gives you a glimpse of what a lot of men have to deal with every day after they commit a crime or are criminalized for no good reason. No government gives a rat's ass about men and it's been like this for a long time.