Last roll of the dice for the Bali Nine
Three members of the Bali Nine heroin smuggling gang were in Denpasar District Court today, giving it one last shot at avoiding the death penalty. The gang have been holed up in Kerobokan jail for over 2 years now. I’m sure to a young person that seems like 5 years. Unlike Schapelle Corby, none of the Bali Nine have written a ‘tell all’ book about their ordeal, probably because none them can write. Still today three of the gang were in the Denpasar courtroom pursuing a judicial review of the their case. I must admit certain aspects of the sentencing were totally whacked. For starters they were only informed their sentence had been moved from 20 years to death by an Australian court reporter! Another crazy thing was them not being allowed to contest the sentencing as they were foreigners
As the 3 (Matthew Norman, Si Yi Chen, and Thanh Duc Tan Nguyen) appeared in court in Denpasar, the other 3 members of the Bali Nine on death row, (Scott Rush and ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran) were in the Constitutional Court in Jakarta that their sentencing was also unfair. Heavy weight Australian lawyers are arguing for them, but here in Indonesia that could backfire, as they take national pride seriously (remember the Minister of Justice rolling back the Tourist visa to 30 days for ‘reciprocity’). Anyway, good luck to the Bali Nine members. I suspect that most of them will end up back in Australia making license plates. Here’s more from The Age.
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The T shirt could say ” Bali Nine should have left the Heroin behind” We give the proceeds to the dont traffic drug classes.
After visiting Kerobokan jail and seeing the condition of some of the inmates (missing teeth, tattoes, general grungy look) I don’t see anyone living in there for long. The hygiene and health of the prisoners has got to be low. You get a flu bugs passing through and half of them might not make it. After 10 years in that joint your own health would seriously be affected.
Indonesian justice system is a joke all over the world as shown by the release of Tommy Suharto who was found guilty of arranging the slaying of a judge. Bought his way out nicely after 5 years in an “open” prison. It is corrupt from top to bottom so expect the unexpected and if you say “buy” land in Bali with some shonky nominee paperwork and you come up against a judge pay heavily for the experience. Caveat emptor.
Yeah they lock you up because you should not use pot because it is bad for your health. They put you in a filthy mafia run scabied flea pit aka Kerobokan, give you wretched food, bad sanitation and all in all as you said ruin your health. They debilitate rather than rehabilitate. You emerge I suppose a wreck of your former self with more communicable diseases than a tropical medicine specialist sees in a year. Let’s keep up the research on the so-called judicial system or is it “solutions” system?
Incidentally S. Corby does not want visitors unless you are from the media I found at last time, and has no interest apparently in the legalization of pot anywhere in the world.
Regardless of the sentence of life behind bars vs death - how can they justify, by comparison, sentences of between 14 - 20 yrs for those found guilty of beheading the 3 school girls.
In the USA the law would implement a minimun mandatory 10 years of a 30 year sentence under the sentencing guidelines. Giving the youthful offender another chance at enjoying the chicks and waves at dreamland. My God, could you imagine the feeling of dying in that jail? Maybe we should make another T Shirt. \