Australia to seek clemency in drug case

Australia to seek clemency in drug case

AUSTRALIA: Australia would seek clemency if an Australian woman
facing drugs trafficking charges in Indonesia's tourist island of
Bali should be sentenced to death, Foreign Minister Alexander
Downer said on Thursday.

Schapelle Leigh Corby, 27, was arrested at Denpasar airport on
Oct. 9 with 4.2 kilograms of high-grade cannabis in a bodyboard
bag after arriving on a flight from Sydney.

Indonesian police have said it was the largest quantity of
cannabis ever seized being taken into Bali.

The beauty therapy student, from the touristic Gold Coast in
Queensland state, is facing prosecution under Indonesian
legislation that orders death as the maximum penalty for
importing drugs.

She has maintained her innocence.

"That's a long way down the track from now and there is a
great deal of legal process to go through before you would ever
end up in that situation, if you did end up in that situation,"
Downer told commercial radio.

"But we would always plead for an Australian's life in that
situation." --AFP