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| Schapelle Corby: Australian drug trafficker freed from Bali jail | Schapelle Corby: Australian drug trafficker freed from Bali jail |
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| Convicted Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby has been released on parole after nine years in prison on the Indonesian island of Bali. | |
| Corby was convicted and jailed for 20 years in 2005 for trying to smuggle marijuana into the tourist island. | Corby was convicted and jailed for 20 years in 2005 for trying to smuggle marijuana into the tourist island. |
| Her case has attracted intense interest in Australia, with prolonged public debate over her guilt or innocence. | Her case has attracted intense interest in Australia, with prolonged public debate over her guilt or innocence. |
| But many in Indonesia saw the former beauty student as a criminal who broke tough drugs laws. | But many in Indonesia saw the former beauty student as a criminal who broke tough drugs laws. |
| The 36-year-old - who has always protested her innocence - was granted parole on Friday in Bali but it was only implemented on Monday. | |
| "The decision by Indonesia's minister for law and human rights is welcomed," Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Saturday. | |
| Canberra has supported the parole application since it was lodged in October 2012. | |
| "I hope that she's now given some privacy as she gets her life back together," Ms Bishop said. | |
| Corby was escorted out of Bali's notorious Kerobokan prison and in to a waiting minibus. Officials say that she will have to complete a few procedural steps before she is finally released. | |
| She received several remissions throughout her sentence because of good behaviour. Five years was shaved off it after an appeal for clemency to the president. | |
| Correspondents say that she is unlikely to be able to return to Australia immediately because she will have to remain in Indonesia until 2017 to fulfil the conditions of her parole. | |
| She is expected to stay with her sister Mercedes, who lives in Bali. |