INDONESIA: Authorities say Australian Schapelle Corby's parole delay is not related to diplomatic row
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INDONESIA: Authorities say Australian Schapelle Corby's parole delay is not related to diplomatic row
- Title: INDONESIA: Authorities say Australian Schapelle Corby's parole delay is not related to diplomatic row
- Date: 9th December 2013
- Summary: BALI, INDONESIA (FILE- MAY 2005) (REUTERS) COURT SESSION OF SCHAPELLE LEIGH CORBY IN PROGRESS AT DENPASAR COURT CORBY LISTENING TO THE VERDICT SUPPORTER HOLDING AUSTRALIAN FLAG AND WATCHING THROUGH WINDOW VARIOUS OF CORBY CRYING WHILE LISTENING TO THE VERDICT TWO POLICE OFFICERS STANDING IN COURT ROOM CORBY WITH HER TRANSLATOR PRESIDING JUDGE LINTON SIRAIT ANNOUNCING SENTENCE CORBY LISTENING TO THE VERDICT CORBY STANDING IN FRONT OF JUDGES CORBY STRUGGLING WITH COURT OFFICIALS CORBY SURROUNDED BY MEDIA
- Embargoed: 24th December 2013 12:00
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- Location: Indonesia
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- Country: Indonesia
- Topics: International Relations,Politics
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- Story Text: The prison governor overseeing the parole case of Australian Schapelle Corby on Monday (December 9) denied that the delay in her bid had anything to do with the diplomatic row between Indonesia and Australia.
Thirty-six-year-old Corby was convicted in 2005 of trying to smuggle 4.1 kg of marijuana into Bali and her application for parole has been approved by the Bali Corrections office.
"For me, Corby's case is a narcotics case, if it is related to any other (issue), I don't know about it," the prison governor of Bali's capital, Denpasar, Farid Junaedi said.
The reports that triggered Indonesia's outrage quoted documents leaked by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, suggesting Australia had tried to monitor the phones of top Indonesian officials in 2009.
Indonesia has already suspended military and police cooperation over preventing asylum seekers from setting sail to Australia.
He added that Corby's case is currently being reviewed by the authorities in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.
"If we calculate (her parole bid) from now, she will be able to go free in 2017. If she proposes to file for parole, her jail time could be reduced, but I don't know when she will be free, because it is up to my superiors to decide," he said.
"Up until now there is still no information related to Corby's parole from Jakarta," Junaedi added.
Indonesia has some of the strictest drug trafficking laws in the world, with many foreigners languishing in jail on the resort island, Bali. - Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
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