On October 7, three Bulgarian judges from the Supreme Court of Cassation decided they would need up to two months to review the Sofia Court of Appeal’s decision to grant Australian citizen Jock Palfreeman parole on September 19.
Palfreeman has served 12 years of a 20 year sentence and, under Bulgarian law, prisoners who serve half their sentence can be paroled. Palfreeman should now be back in Australia, however he is being held illegally in an immigration prison just outside Sophia.
Palfreeman told Green Left Weekly that justice is being forfeited for political power and the rule of law is being challenged by Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov, because he is a powerful and controversial figure with close ties to the government and corporate interests.
