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An Indonesian overseas contract worker narrowly escaped the death penalty in a Singapore court—but three of her fellow housemaids are still awaiting their fate.

September 28, 2004

APPEARING from the defendant’s room, she went straight to take her seat before the judge at the Singapore High Court last Friday. Frowning, she listened to the judge reading the verdict. Her face remained distraught, although the chains had been removed from her hands and feet. On that day, Sundarti Supriyanto, a 25-year-old female overseas contract worker from Magetan, East Java, was facing the end of her trial. Accused of killing her empl

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