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Thursday, 19 January 2006, 10:49 GMT

Court reinstates Corby jail term

Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby, 3rd August An Indonesian court has reinstated an Australian woman's 20-year jail sentence for drug trafficking.

Schapelle Corby's term had been cut by five years to 15 years on appeal in October, but Indonesia's Supreme Court has now overturned that move.

Corby, a beauty therapist from the Gold Coast, was found carrying 4.1kg (9 lb) of marijuana in her bag in 2004.

She claimed the drugs were planted and her case has won widespread sympathy in Australia.

The 20-year sentence was reinstated after an appeal by prosecutors. It was unclear on what basis this was done.

Corby can now either request a judicial review, but would need to point to new evidence or technical errors in her case, or she could ask the Indonesian president to pardon her, but that would involve an admission of guilt, according to the Australian newspaper The Age.

Corby's Indonesian lawyer, Hotman Paris Hutapea, has sent a message to the Australian Associated Press threatening to resign from her case.

He said the arrest of her half-brother James Sioeli Kisina on drugs-related charges in Queensland had "ruined" his attempt to free her.




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