Australian Schapelle Corby (L) prays while she is escorted by policemen as she arrives at the court for prosecutors final remark in a Denpasar courtroom on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on May 6, 2005
Guess Australia's Gov't. doesn't care much.
Australia just pledged 5 million in polio prevention to Muslimnesia yesterday.
Australian Schapelle Corby (L) prays while she is escorted by policemen as she arrives at the court for prosecutors final remark in a Denpasar courtroom on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on May 6, 2005
Typically my reaction to Corby's profestations of innocence would be, "Nice try." But I think in this case she really didn't know about the drugs.
Getting life for a little over 9lbs of pot seems a bit extreme to me and I'm no advocate of legalizing drugs. Plus from the sound of this piece the court is not dealing with this in a fair and even-handed manner. I can't imagine that the prisons in Indonesia are very attractive either.
The US State Department estimates about 600,000 to 800,000 people – mostly children and women – are trafficked across national borders annually.
Girls from the villages of Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines are lured into cities or neighbouring countries with promises of lucrative jobs as waitresses and domestic helpers, only to end up in massage parlours and karaoke bars.
Others are flown as far as Australia, Japan, South Africa and the United States to be kept as slaves in brothels – beaten, drugged, starved or raped in the first days of their reclusion to intimidate and prepare them for clients, the experts say.
Sex tourism is a profitable business. Data provided by the International Labour Organisation showed that 2 to 14 percent of the gross domestic product of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand comes from sex tourism, experts said
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Indonesia, trafficking in drugs is a sin punishable by death, while trafficking in young kids is Aokay. Hypocrites.