Action alert! McCulloch trial adjourned

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McCulloch trial adjourned

On November 27, the trial in Aceh of Australian resident and academic Lesley McCulloch and US nurse Joy-Lee Sadler was adjourned for three weeks at the insistence of the prosecution. The women fear the trial may drag beyond Christmas, despite Sadler's serious ill-health due to her HIV-positive condition and McCulloch's need for back surgery. They have been jailed in cramped conditions since September 11.

In desperate response, Sadler began a hunger strike when the adjournment was announced. We urge supporters to write and phone in protest to the Indonesian embassy in Canberra, or the consulate in your city. Their details are:

Canberra embassy, 8 Darwin Ave, Yarralumla ACT 2600. Phone (02) 6250 8600, fax (02) 6273 6017, email <canberra.org.au>; The Department of Foreign Affairs, R.G. Casey Building, John McEwen Crescent, Barton, ACT 0221,

phone (02) 6261 1111, fax (02) 6261 3111; foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer, Canberra ministerial office, phone (02) 6277 7500, fax (02) 6273 4112, e-mail <minister.downer@dfat.gov.au>.

From Green Left Weekly, December 4, 2002.
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