Indon minister may revoke Corby's parole
Indonesian justice minister Amir Syamsuddin says he may revoke Schapelle Corby's parole after viewing Seven's program about her release from a Bali jail.
Amir Syamsuddin is likely to make the decision within days, Fairfax Media reports.
"I am waiting for a complete report from the Bali Corrections Board, and in the meantime I'd like to announce that there's a possibility I will revoke Corby's parole," he told a small group of journalists.
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The Indonesian government had warned the Corby family that Schapelle should not do a post-release interview, but the story on Seven's Sunday Night program used candid footage of Corby and an interview with her sister, Mercedes.
The program captured Schapelle's first moments out of jail after being convicted in 2005 of drug smuggling.
Seven says there was no interview, but the program does contains some of Schapelle's first recorded words after being released from jail, with the drug smuggler saying "I feel like a crab".
Two weeks of lobbying by the Corby family has failed to convince Indonesian authorities that an interview with Schapelle wouldn't upset the public, and therefore breach parole conditions.
Mercedes Corby and her husband Wayan Widyartha met authorities in Bali last week, and Mercedes was given permission to be interviewed.
Head of Bali's provincial law and human rights office, I Gusti Kompyang Adnyana, said the program would air at Corby's risk.
"Since the very beginning I've warned that an interview is not allowed," he said on Friday.
"If an interview was still conducted, it's at her risk.
"We will later see the content of it ... discuss it afterwards and report to Jakarta.
"If there's truly a violation, there will be sanctions."
Justice Minister Amir Syamsuddin has repeatedly warned of the likely consequences of Corby speaking publicly.
"I think all activities that would create unease, social jealousy, they should be avoided," he told reporters in Jakarta on Friday.
Corby went to enormous lengths to conceal her face from the media when she was released on February 10.
As the van she is in exits Bali's Kerobokan Prison complex, Schapelle lets out the contented whoop of a free woman.
"Nice one, driver. Woohoo," she says from behind the scarf she used to hide her face.
When she steps into the luxury private resort where her brother and sister are waiting, she begins to laugh, jump up and down and hug her brother Michael and sister Mercedes.
"You can take your thing off now," her brother tells her, and she removes the scarf.
The former beauty school student can also be seen Skyping her mother Rosleigh Rose back in Australia, and hugging her nieces and nephews.
Sunday Night executive producer Mark Llewellyn said Corby was not interviewed "because she cannot do an interview".
But her family had decided to go ahead with the program without payment to try to put an end to the media frenzy surrounding them.
Mercedes said she couldn't understand why her sister wasn't allowed to be interviewed.
"I actually don't know why it is a problem because other people have been able to speak," she said, referring to interviews with convicted terrorists in Indonesia.
"It seems that it is, my thinking, that they have taken away her freedom of speech.”
