One letter a week for Cohen
PA Palmerston North The New Zealander, Lorraine Cohen, has lost the privileges she once enjoyed on Malaysia’s death row, including that of replying to a mountain of mail from New Zealanders.
In a letter from Penang Jail, where she is serving a life sentence on drugs charges, she has asked one of her regular correspondents to pass on her “apologies to everyone” because she is permitted to write only one letter a week. Cohen said she felt she was deserting the people who had given her support at her time of need, by not writing to thank them. While on death row she was able to write letters any time. Cohen said she had been “expecting the worst” from her appeal hearing in Malaysia last month, and described the commuting of her death sentence as a “wonderful miracle.”
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Press, 15 September 1989, Page 4
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