Convicted Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has had three months cut from her 20-year sentence

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Convicted Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has had three months cut from her 20-year sentence as part of Indonesia's independence day celebrations, an official says.Bali Nine heroin mule Renae Lawrence also had her sentence cut by four months as part of the celebrations, Yon Suharyono told reporters.“Corby officially gets today, on Indonesia's Independence Day, a three-month cut off her sentence,” said Suharyono, the head of Bali's Kerobokan jail where Corby is being held.
He said it was the second time authorities had cut the 31-year-old's sentence. It was reduced by three months in 2006.With today's remission, Corby is expected to be freed by April 12, 2024, he added.The former beauty therapist was found guilty in 2005 of trafficking 4.1 kilograms of marijuana to Indonesia.
She has always maintained she is innocent.Corby - who has struggled with depression since her final appeal was rejected in March, when Indonesia's Supreme Court upheld her 20-year term - missed out on a sentence cut twice last year because a mobile phone was found in her cell.Meanwhile Lawrence, the only female member of the so-called Bali Nine ring of Australian heroin traffickers, received a four-month cut from her 20-year sentence, Suharyono said.Indonesia grants sentence cuts of up to six months, twice a year - once to mark Independence Day and another to mark major religious holidays according to a convict's faith.