Renae Lawrence, the only member of the Bali Nine not to be given a life sentence, says her fellow convicted smugglers are losing hope.
Convicted drug smuggler Renae Lawrence has broken her self-imposed silence to call for reduced prison sentences for the Bali Nine members who remain behind bars.
In a statement aimed at Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Lawrence said fellow smugglers Matthew Norman, Michael Czugaj, Scott Rush, Martin Stephens and Si Yi Chen should be given determinant sentences. Those men were sentenced to lifetime prison terms with no chance of release for their role in the 2005 attempt to smuggle more than 8 kilograms of heroin out of Indonesia.Lawrence, the only member of the Bali Nine to receive a determinant sentence, said she feared for the mental health of the men, who were"losing hope".
"When we were arrested in 2005, Matthew Norman, Michael Czugaj, Scott Rush, Martin Stephens and Si Yi Chen were all very young men," Lawrence wrote.
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