a small but rowdy group of demonstrators protested at the trial of Schapelle Leigh Corby...
a small but rowdy group of demonstrators protested at the trial of Schapelle Leigh Corby, an Australian accused of smuggling marijuana into Indonesia's Bali resort, demanding that she be sentenced to death.
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a small but rowdy group of demonstrators protested at the trial of Schapelle Leigh Corby, an Australian accused of smuggling marijuana into Indonesia's Bali resort, demanding that she be sentenced to death.
The 20 or so protestors waved posters urging judges to hand down a death sentence for student Corby, 27, for allegedly importing 4.2 kilograms (9.2 pounds) of the drug. Some of the pro-death penalty signs were pasted on the courtroom's windows. A row erupted between Corby's mother, Rosleigh Rose, and a woman protestor who held up a poster reading "Death for those who smuggle drugs to Bali!"
"How much do you get paid to bring those signs? She's innocent but none of them inside cares to prove it," Rosleigh said as she stepped out of the courtroom, visibly angry while spraying the protestors with bottled water.
Corby rejected the claims, insisting she had no idea how the drugs -- the largest amount of cannabis ever seized at the airport -- got in her bag. She said officials had humiliated her by ordering her to remove her clothes. Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has said his country would appeal for clemency if Corby received a death sentence, the maximum penalty for a drug offense in Indonesia.
The 20 or so protestors waved posters urging judges to hand down a death sentence for student Corby, 27, for allegedly importing 4.2 kilograms (9.2 pounds) of the drug. Some of the pro-death penalty signs were pasted on the courtroom's windows. A row erupted between Corby's mother, Rosleigh Rose, and a woman protestor who held up a poster reading "Death for those who smuggle drugs to Bali!"
"How much do you get paid to bring those signs? She's innocent but none of them inside cares to prove it," Rosleigh said as she stepped out of the courtroom, visibly angry while spraying the protestors with bottled water.
Corby rejected the claims, insisting she had no idea how the drugs -- the largest amount of cannabis ever seized at the airport -- got in her bag. She said officials had humiliated her by ordering her to remove her clothes. Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has said his country would appeal for clemency if Corby received a death sentence, the maximum penalty for a drug offense in Indonesia.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Agence France Presse, 17/02/2005)
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