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Indonesia grants Schapelle Corby parole

2014-02-07 1,063 Dailymotion

RESENDING WITH FULL SCRIPT<br/> <br />EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: PART AUDIO AS INCOMING<br/> <br />ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION).<br/> <br />STORY: Indonesia on Friday (February 7) granted parole for Schapelle Corby, the 36-year-old Australian woman who was convicted in 2005 of smuggling 4.1 kg (9 lb) of marijuana into the resort island of Bali.<br/> <br />Indonesia's Minister of Law and Human Rights Amir Syamsuddin said Corby was among hundreds of applicants whose parole was approved on Friday.<br/> <br />"Thank God this day has been resolved with (parole for) as many as 1,291 applicants," Syamsuddin said in a news conference at the ministry in Jakarta. "She is there, included in the 1,291 applicants."<br/> <br />Corby, who originally was from Queensland's Gold Coast, was convicted in May of 2005 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono granted a clemency plea in 2012, reducing her sentence by five years because of good behaviour. She has served almost nine years at a prison in Denp

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