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 Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: b0red5tiff]
#8593839 - 07/04/08 02:19 AM (6 months, 3 days ago) |
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US outrage at Schapelle Corby's plight
July 4, 2008 - news.com.au
SCHAPELLE Corby has received an outpouring of support from the United States following a film documenting her plight screened on US television.
Passionate Herald Sun readers from the US have expressed their angst and concern at Corby’s treatment since the documentary ‘Ganja Queen’ screened on US cable channel HBO last week.
And they have attacked Australians for being dismissive of the former beauty therapist's plight.
Described by some US reviewers as “disturbing”, “explosive” and “harrowing”, the film was a ratings winner for the Nine Network when it screened in Australia, under the tamer title “Schapelle Corby: The Hidden Truth”.
The film, by Janine Hosking, features vision shot by Corby using a camera in her Bali jail cell and interviews with her at the jail.
One of many American readers to express her outrage at Corby’s treatment, Washington resident Tina Mazzuca said she was “absolutely sick about the whole thing”.
“She is a human being, she is a woman, and she is innocent,” she wrote.
“I have seen the documentary about Ms Corby. I have read the nasty comments made by her by fellow countrymen.
“Let’s stop the bashing and try to help.”
Ms Mazzuca was one of several readers who expressed disgust at the comments about Corby made by Australians.
US resident Rocko Gambino wrote: “How can your government tolerate this sort of action towards one of there (sic) own?! Do you not realize that this could very easily happen to you?”
“The USA may have it's faults, but you could rest assure we would not tolerate that from a 3rd World Country! Australia should be outraged that this has happened.”
One US reader, who chose to remain anonymous, wrote: “Gee, you Aussies are pretty cold blooded. What if she is truly innocent?”
Mark Addeo of New Jersey said readers who commented that they were tired of hearing the name ‘Corby’ were cowards.
“You wouldn’t know the first thing about fighting for your freedom or anyone else’s for that matter,” he wrote.
Rachele Lightsey from Texas said fellow Australian should be ashamed.
“Where is the love for your fellow Aussie?? Thank goodness I live in America! If Corby was an American, this kind of treatment would NOT be tolerated!! She would be home.”
A Canadian resident, Brian Surette of Vancouver, said he had just finished watching the documentary and was appalled at such an “atrocity of injustice”.
“I for one will be furthering my research. And maybe we can help? Till then my thoughts are with Ms Corby and her family,” he wrote.
Corby was admitted to hospital for treatment for severe depression two weeks ago.
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veggie
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#8608632 - 07/08/08 03:21 PM (5 months, 29 days ago) |
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Improved Schapelle Corby back in jail cell after depression
July 8, 2008 - news.com.au
SCHAPELLE Corby last night headed back to jail from hospital after her doctors said her depression was easing.
 The convicted drug runner will continue to take medication and have therapy, but most probably will be treated at Bali's Kerobokan jail, where she is serving a 20-year sentence.
However, there will be no major changes in the conditions, with authorities saying Corby will be in the same cell as usual and sharing with five other prisoners.
Head of the psychiatric team at Sanglah Hospital, Nyoman Ratep, said that after examining Corby yesterday the team had decided she was ready mentally to be returned to jail.
Corby, who turns 31 tomorrow, has been in hospital for more than two weeks after suffering severe depression, for which she needed medication and counselling.
"In terms of mentality she is ready to face the environment in the jail with the assistance of medication, therapy and support from the medical team, so she can be ready to face her problems in jail," Dr Ratep said.
She will be treated by jail doctors, and the medical team from Sanglah Hospital will be available to treat her either at the jail or at the hospital as an outpatient.
"Clinically her condition is good and she is ready to be an outpatient," Dr Ratep said.
Jail doctor Agung Hartawan said some focus would be put on Corby's reintegration and adaptation at the jail.
The jail's head of security, Maliki, said yesterday no special preparations or changes were being made.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#8609158 - 07/08/08 05:35 PM (5 months, 29 days ago) |
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Thanks for keeping this updated veggie! What a crying shame this is. Anyone know where there's a torrent of Ganja Queen?
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veggie
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Happy Birthday Schapelle, hang in there...
Schapelle Corby turns 31 back in jail
July 10, 2008 - news.com.au
AFTER more than two weeks in hospital being treated for depression, Schapelle Corby was back behind bars at Kerobokan jail yesterday.
 Still looking very pale, she walked back to the women's cell block area clutching mint slice biscuits and a pink teddy bear.
Corby, who turns 31 today, was returned to prison late on Tuesday after psychiatrists who had been treating her said she was ready to be reintegrated to prison life.
She is back in the same cell she has long shared but there are now fewer cellmates - five compared with the normal nine or 11.
And jail sources have revealed that Corby has applied to be transferred to another jail in Bali, however authorities have yet to assess the application.
The application is to move to Bangli prison, which is a much smaller jail than Kerobokan and which also deals with drug cases.
Here there are only about 10 other female prisoners while in Kerobokan there are about 82. Kerobokan has a total of 887 prisoners.
But one stumbling block with this plan, which has been lodged with the jail, the department and the Australian Consulate in Bali, is that Bangli is not a prison designed for inmates serving long sentences, only for those with short terms.
Yesterday the jail's boss of security, Maliki, said Corby's condition appeared better but she still looked sleepy.
Maliki said that he had instructed the other women prisoners in the jail to support and help Corby now that she had returned and to look out for her, and they had promised to do so.
"I told them yesterday afternoon to accept her and her condition and they must understand each other. I also told Corby to accept her condition and the reality, even though she believes she is not guilty," Maliki said.
"I gave an explanation to the other women prisoners to support her and to help her and they promised to do that."
He said Corby was different to fellow Australian prisoner Bali Nine member Renae Lawrence, whom he said associated with local prisoners and was well adapted to jail life.
Maliki said when Corby was returned to her cell there had been no tears and she had been warmly welcomed by her cellmates.
Corby spent more than two weeks in Sanglah Hospital being treated for severe depression after suffering a breakdown brought on partially by the loss of her last appeal against her conviction and 20-year sentence for drug dealing. She has maintained her innocence of the charges of bringing 4.1kg of marijuana to Bali.
She will continue to be treated in jail.
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veggie
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#8625023 - 07/12/08 11:14 AM (5 months, 25 days ago) |
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There has been a LOT of press in the Aussie newspapers as of late connecting Schappele's father to marijuana smuggling to Bali. I think this is totally false. And the article below debunks this rumor...
Doubt cast on Corby dad drug ties
July 5, 2008 - The Australian
DOUBT has been cast on allegations that convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby's father was also involved in drug trafficking.
Queensland police informant and former heroin addict Kim Moore, three weeks before Schapelle made her ill-fated trip to Bali in 2004, told authorities that her father Michael trafficked drugs into Bali.
However, Queensland Police today said investigations into the statements made against Mr Corby had been found to be unjustified.
“Queensland Police has no evidence to link Michael Corby with involvement in the drug trade,” a police spokesperson said.
“It's dead, over. It's an old story and I don't know why it's getting more attention.”
Mr Corby, who died of cancer earlier this year, was also accused by his cousin Allan Trembath of moving marijuana throughout Queensland for decades.
Mr Trembath said he had refused an $80,000 offer from Mr Corby to accompany him on a boat trip to Cape York to pick up marijuana.
However, Mr Trembath's sister Lyn Lack discredited the claim, saying his statements are unjustified “bullshit”.
“It's all lies,” Ms Lack said.
“$80,000 in the late 70s is like $500,000 today.
”Imagine how much more marijuana that would be worth in the 70s.
“That was like two houses back in the 70s.
“Michael never had that sort of money. It's just not credible.”
Ms Lack said she believed Mr Trembath was only making his statements now because Mr Corby was dead and he wouldn't have to defend his claims.
“It has to be for his 10 minutes of fame,” she said.
Ms Lack also said Mr Trembath hardly knew the Corby family, despite being Mr Corby's cousin, and Schapelle probably didn't even know he existed.
However, former Corby financial backer Ron Bakir said if the allegations were true, it would be the “ultimate betrayal.”
In 2005, Mr Bakir funded Schapelle's legal bid to prove her innocence, gaining himself the name of the “white knight”.
Told to “butt out” and “zip his lips” by Corby's family and defence team after making public statements, he was forced to cut ties with the Corby case on June 24, 2005.
“If what they're saying is true, I've been conned along with the rest of the country,” Mr Bakir said.
“I believed in her innocence, it's disappointing news.”
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veggie
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#8758624 - 08/11/08 02:56 PM (4 months, 26 days ago) |
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Poor girl. She looks all whacked out on 'antidepressants'. I suppose
that is the only way to tolerate the remainder of her 20 year
sentence...
Fun and games
for Schapelle Corby
August 12, 2008 - news.com.au
 ALMOST two months after being
put in
hospital with severe depression, Schapelle Corby was all smiles
yesterday as she enjoyed a games day at her Bali jail.
Corby, 31, hugged a senior prison officer and
clapped and laughed during a pre-Independence Day fun and games event
at Kerobokan Jail.
She told a local journalist she was not sick, despite prison
doctors
saying she remained on anti-depressants and was still "not 100 per
cent" better.
Radar Bali journalist Mohammed Ridwan spoke to Corby and asked
about
the fit of depression that saw her confined to a Bali hospital for
three weeks in June.
"Saya tidak sakit," Corby told Ridwan in perfect Indonesian, which
means, "I'm not sick".
Corby also sang along to the Michael Bolton song To Love
Somebody, swaying with the music.
When Ridwan invited her to dance Corby said: "I'd love to, but you go
first."
She also joked and asked him to delete a photograph he had taken of her
on his mobile phone, telling him that it was "ugly".
She
also asked Ridwan which paper he worked for and told him that when she
was in hospital that she had been very angry with the media.
Asked
why, she said jokingly that if she told them, the media would make
another story. She put her hand over her mouth and laughed.
The
games day, held inside an auditorium at Kerobokan Jail, was held in the
lead-up to this Sunday's Indonesian Independence Day celebrations and
included prisoners taking part in wacky competitions.
Corby did not compete but was an enthusiastic spectator with people
saying she looked healthy and happy.
She
certainly looked better than the last time she was seen - in Sanglah
Hospital where she was medicated for depression brought on partially by
the rejection of her last appeal and the deaths of her father and
stepfather.
The jail's doctor, Agung Hartawan, said yesterday
that Corby was still not 100 per cent stable and she was still taking
anti-depressants.
"She is much better compared to when she was
in the hospital but she is not 100 per cent stable," Dr Hartawan said.
"Sometimes she cries when she meets or talks with someone close to her,
especially to her family or to the consulate."
He said Corby's feeling that she was innocent and trapped in the jail
without cause made her upset.
Corby
is in line to get a short amount of time cut from her sentence on
Independence Day, however, authorities said the remissions had not yet
been announced.
Corby is serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted of trying to
smuggle 4.1kg of marijuana into into Bali in 2004.
Last month, after her hospital respite, she was refused permission to
move to a low-security prison in Bali.
Before
her hospital treatment, prison officers said she had been unable to
sleep or eat in prison since learning that her final appeal had failed.
Corby's appeal failed in March, when Indonesia's Supreme Court upheld
her 20-year sentence.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#8776147 - 08/15/08 02:23 AM (4 months, 23 days ago) |
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Corby sentence may receive small cut
Convicted Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby is tipped to receive a small sentence cut on Sunday, to mark Indonesia's Independence Day celebrations.
Corby, who is serving a 20-year prison term, was one of 385 inmates in Bali's Kerobokan Prison recommended for a sentence cut to mark the historic day.
The head of Bali's Justice Office Mohamad Indra said Corby would likely receive a three-month remission, while Bali Nine heroin mule Renae Lawrence was in line for a four-month cut.
Nine Islamic militants convicted over the Bali bombings are also being considered for remissions, although a decision was still pending from the national prisons office, Kerobokan Prison head Yon Suharyono said.
Indonesia grants sentence cuts of up to six months, twice a year - once to mark Independence Day and another to mark major religious holidays according to a convict's faith.
Last year, 10 Islamic radicals convicted over the Bali bombings received sentence cuts of up to five months, angering some Australian relatives of victims.
"Regarding Indonesia's 63rd anniversary of independence, 385 prisoners in Kerobokan Prison will receive a sentence reduction or remission," the Justice Office's Indra said.
"From that number 42 people will immediately be released because their service period is over.
"Among the prisoners to get remission, there are seven foreign citizens, including Schapelle Corby and Renae Lawrence.
"But it is still only a recommendation, the official announcement will be on August 17."
A sentence cut is likely to be welcome news for Corby, 31, who has struggled with depression since her final appeal was rejected in March, when Indonesia's Supreme Court upheld her 20-year-sentence.
She was hospitalised for two weeks last month, but was spotted venturing from her ward to go shopping and undergo a beauty treatment.
Authorities also recently rejected a request she move to a low-security prison in Bali.
Corby - who was caught with 4.1kg of marijuana in her boogie board bag at Bali's airport in October 2004 - missed out on a sentence cut twice last year because a mobile phone was found in her cell.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#9397506 - 12/09/08 03:27 AM (1 month, 2 hours ago) |
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Worldwide Video Protest For Schapelle Corby
December 9, 2008 - prweb.com
A groundbreaking music video has today been released in support of imprisoned Australian, Schapelle Corby. Tara Hack's highly acclaimed song "Saya Tidak Bersalah, I'm Not Guilty", tells the horrific story, with the landmark video illustrating the increasingly global scale of concern
A groundbreaking music video has today been released in support of imprisoned Australian, Schapelle Corby. Tara Hack's highly acclaimed song "Saya Tidak Bersalah, I'm Not Guilty", tells the horrific story, with the landmark video illustrating the increasingly global scale of concern.
The 'one planet' video features people in different locations across the world, each demonstrating their opposition to her continued incarceration. It illustrates how concern for Schapelle Corby is now truly international, and includes representation from the United States, Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Europe and Canada, amongst others.
In 2005, Schapelle Corby was sentenced to an unprecedented 20 years in an Indonesian prison cell, for importation of marijuana, following one of the most contentious cases of modern times. To this day she maintains her innocence, with observers and human rights support groups urging her release. A recent film (http://www.schapelle.net/videos.html) cites many of the disturbing aspects of the case, including the refusal of the court to test the drugs for country of origin, the subsequent burning of the untested drugs, and the much lesser value of the drugs in Indonesia than in the country of alleged export, Australia.
The video pictorial begins in New York (home of the Statue of Liberty) and ends in Canberra (home of the Australian government), zigzagging between continents on the way. The artist, Tara Hack, who is the first to appear, said: "I hope it is a tiny step to give Schapelle back the voice that was so cruelly and unjustly stripped from her"
LANDMARK VIDEO
Jan Fielding of Margin House Records described it as a landmark video: "This is leading edge social electro-innovation. I've not seen anything like it before. It is genuine innovation on a global scale, and a landmark video."
Rachel James, of 'Artists for Schapelle' stated: "These are real people in real places, with a very powerful message. The world is watching the Australian government doing nothing to help, with their media covering their tracks. The world is watching the appalling injustice and cruelty of this case. When the world hears her cries for help and learns of her story, national boundaries become absolutely irrelevant".
She continues: "The song is beautiful, and demanded a special video to accompany it. It was therefore most fitting that it was made inclusive of global contributors, albeit within the limited production window we had available. The incredible reaction we received illustrates just how much people feel for her.".
Artists for Schapelle was created to enable musicians and others to contribute to the support campaign to free her. It is open to all artists, of every genre.
VIEW THE VIDEO
The video can be viewed directly on Schapelle.net: http://www.schapelle.net/tarahack.html
ABOUT SCHAPELLE.NET
Schapelle.net is a Web site dedicated to the Schapelle Corby case. It provides resources and information to help those who are willing to assist. For further information, including details of the case itself, and how to help, see: http://www.schapelle.net
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