To those misguided people out there, who continue to harbour the notion that Schapelle Corby must be 'guilty,' because she was 'convicted' in a Bali Court, I ask you to look at the following:
Indonesia supports, in principle, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Article 11. * (1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
Schapelle was not given all the guarantees necessary for her defence.
She was denied fingerprinting of the plastic bags.
She was denied a weight comparison of her baggage, to determine whether it was 4kg heavier than when checked in.
She was denied forensic testing of the drugs to determine THC content (which would have established the quality of the drugs - bush weed or hydroponic) and country of origin.
She was denied access to the CCTV footage from the camera above the Customs Counter, which could, and would, have corroborated her story about what happened, and what was said, when the boogie-board bag was placed on the counter.
Her own sworn statement and the testimonies of all her witnesses were dismissed.
Not one word of damning testimony by the prosecution's witnesses was backed up by even a single piece of hard evidence.
Not a single Judge in the panel of 3 had ever acquitted a defendant, and Chief Judge Linton Sirait had presided over 500 previous drug related trials.
These are indisputable FACTS!
As such, her trial was a sham, and the 'guilty' verdict resulting from it has no credibility.
She was judged guilty, no one is denying this. However, she was not proven guilty, and her basic human right to a fair trial was totally ignored.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
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