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Gillard backs Corby clemency plea

Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she supports a clemency plea by convicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby.

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she supports a clemency plea by convicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby.

Ms Gillard said was concerned about Corby's personal circumstances inside an Indonesian prison.

"I support, the Australian government supports her plea for clemency," she told reporters in Melbourne.

"We obviously do want that plea for clemency to be heard and to get sympathetic consideration."

Corby, 33, is serving a 20-year jail term after she was arrested at Bali's airport in October 2004 with 4.1kg of marijuana in her boogie board bag.

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Earlier this year she applied for presidential clemency, saying she was suffering from depression that could endanger her life.


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