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Drug trafficker freed from Bali prison
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Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby, hiding her face from a media scrum, was hustled out of prison yesterday after more than nine years behind bars in Bali.
The 36-year-old covered her features with a scarf and hat as she was released on parole and ushered into a minibus waiting outside Kerobokan jail on the Indonesian island, as camera crews and photographers fought to get a shot of her.
Corby’s case has been the subject of huge public interest in Australia ever since her 2004 arrest in Bali, with marijuana stashed in her surfing gear.
Her proclamations of innocence and well-documented fight with mental illness in prison generated much sympathy back home. She was often depicted as the victim of a conspiracy or of unfair treatment by Indonesia’s supposedly corrupt judicial system.
Her release received blanket coverage by Australian TV networks yesterday, which broadcast every moment live.
After she was freed, Corby visited government officials who will oversee her parole in Indonesia — where she must remain until 2017 — before being driven to a luxury resort and spa.
A bidding war has heated up in recent days for her first post-prison interview. A second car carrying a TV crew raced into the resort after Corby, but all other media were kept out.
The ex-beauty school student did not comment, but an official said she seemed upset.
“We asked her how she was. She cried and said she was still feeling traumatised due to all the journalists,” Agung Bagus Kusimantara from the Bali prosecutors’ office, said.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Corby’s release would be “a happy day for her family and supporters.”
At her mother’s home in Queensland, the freed woman’s family celebrated with champagne.
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