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Journalist Peter Lloyd Free on Bond in Singapore

By Jeralyn, Section Foreign Affairs
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 06:34:04 PM EST
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Good news for Australian journalist Peter Lloyd, arrested last week for trafficking in one gram of meth in Singapore. He's been released on bail.

He's still facing 20 years and up to 15 lashes of the cane.

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    Journalist Peter Lloyd Free on Bond in Singapore | 14 comments (14 topical)

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    Bail? Is that something they usually do? (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by PssttCmere08 on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 06:37:39 PM EST
    It seems surprising to me....I am sure he may have already thought about making a run for the border.

    If I were him (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by andgarden on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 06:57:32 PM EST
    I'd be looking for a boat.

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    It may well be (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by weltec2 on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 07:30:13 PM EST
    that is exactly what they want him to do. They don't want the bother of all this. If I were him I would look upon this as an opportunity. Forfeit the bail and go.

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    Sheeeet.... (none / 0) (#14)
    by kdog on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 09:24:56 AM EST
    I'd risk a swim across the Pacific over 20 years in a cage.

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    After Schapelle Corby's horror story (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by clio on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 06:59:35 PM EST
    I think I'd get the H out of Singapore to anywhere safe however I could...

    and never go back.

    But, Corby's story (none / 0) (#4)
    by JimWash08 on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 07:01:42 PM EST
    unfolded in Thailand, not Singapore.

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    Indonesia; You're right. (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by JimWash08 on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 07:49:02 PM EST
    Not Thailand. My bad.

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    JimWash....shape up or I will have to (5.00 / 1) (#8)
    by PssttCmere08 on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 08:19:17 PM EST
    give you a troll rating....lol

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    Aww... a troll-rating from you (5.00 / 1) (#9)
    by JimWash08 on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 08:47:07 PM EST
    my friend, would be an honor. You ain't no 'sher' :P

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    lol....yer too kewl for skewl...Nope, I (none / 0) (#10)
    by PssttCmere08 on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 10:06:27 PM EST
    am no sher....and you ain't either :)

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    no, Bali (none / 0) (#11)
    by Jeralyn on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 11:47:06 PM EST


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    And I do know that Ms. Corby (none / 0) (#5)
    by clio on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 07:14:19 PM EST
    is imprisoned in Indonesia, but Singapore, too, is draconian about these things.  According to a Marine friend of mine, the caning is not a so big a deal: done over clothing*, exact regulations on location, force, etc, but the 20 years will be 20 years.
    Long time.

    *Wikipedia disagrees.  Says Judicial Caning in Singapore is done on bare buttocks and in private.  Not what my friend described to me. Will have to ask him for more details.

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    Caning (none / 0) (#12)
    by Jeralyn on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 11:57:50 PM EST
    Remember Michael Fay, the American kid who vanalized a car? He got four lashes on his bare buttocks.

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    And doubtless has scars to prove it. (none / 0) (#13)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 09:13:53 AM EST
    Caning is a rather barbaric atrocity held over from the days of the British Empire. Not to sound glib, but I'd not be surprised to discover that Singapore also still placed Arbitrarily state-designated antisocial miscreants in stocks.

    Call me a starry-eyed liberal for saying so, but I'd like to believe that in a truly enlightened society, the practices of corporal and capital punishment would not be duly sanctioned options placed at the arbitrary disposal of the state's controlling legal authority.

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