Indonesia allows non-White terrorists to go free;
seeks death penalty for Schapelle Corby.

(Illustration: Schapelle Corby receives token of support.)

An Australian prisoner will be sent to Indonesia as a key witness in the drug-smuggling trial of a 27-year-old Australian beauty student who maintains she is innocent but faces a possible death penalty, the justice minister said Friday.

Schapelle Corby, a student beautician from Australia’s Queensland state, was arrested on Indonesia’s Bali island in October after airport authorities found 4.1 kilograms (9 pounds) of marijuana in her surfboard bag as she arrived for a family holiday.

Throughout the case — which has received widespread media attention in Australia — Corby has maintained her innocence, claiming the drugs were planted.

She faces the death penalty if convicted of drug trafficking.

Last week, Corby’s lawyers successfully had her trial adjourned until this week, after an Australian prison inmate, John Ford, backed Corby’s argument that the drugs were planted during a bungled domestic drug trafficking operation.

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