Corby's Indonesian sentence cut by three months
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Australia's Schapelle Corby is among Indonesian prisoners to get a reduced prison term. [ABC]
Indonesia will cut three months off the 20-year sentence imposed on Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby as part of independence day celebrations this weekend.
Yon Suharyono, the head of the Kerobokan penitentiary where Corby is being held, says it will be the second time authorities have cut the 31-year-old's sentence after it was reduced by a month in 2006.
The former beauty therapist was found guilty in 2005 of trafficking 4.1 kilograms of marijuana to Indonesia.
She claims international smugglers placed the drugs in her luggage.
Many Australians believe her claims of innocence and see the sentence as harsh.
The only female member of the so-called "Bali Nine" ring of Australian heroin traffickers, Renae Lawrence, will also have four months cut off her 20-year sentence.
The group's three ring-leaders, Scott Rush, Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, are on death row in Indonesia.
