As was expected Schapelle Corby has been granted a four-month remission on her 20-year jail sentence for smuggling 4.1kg of the wacky weed into Bali back in 2004. Corby has been battling depression for a number of years and continues to maintain her innocence.
Renae Lawrence of Bali Nine fame was granted a five-month sentence reduction on her 20-year jail sentence for trying to smuggle more than 8kg of heroin out of Bali and into Australia in 2005.
Both, seemingly, still have a long road to haul before they will qualify for release. Hopefully, the remissions will make them feel a little bit better about that.
4 comments:
Yes but no remisi for the Ozzie lifers, how come?? Does not seem fair to me. I guess here life means life. Interesting.
Lawbee...
Yes, in Indonesia, life means just that, life.
You cannot get a remission on a sentence for which you are not going to get out of prison for anyway.
It is not about fair, is it?
talk about not fair - the yank who swam the lake with wooden flippers got a pardon of his seven years and the lady of Burma got another two? years!
Lawbee...
I think that Burma is not really on topic with this one. And, the fairness link is tenuous at best!
It was always going to pan out that way. I am surprised that you're surprised.
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